Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers (REACTION)

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024

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  • @chrissimon9879
    @chrissimon9879 Год назад +116

    This is easily one of the best new music reaction channels I’ve come across. They don’t interrupt the flow of the music. Their background as musicians/producers allows them to comment insightfully and, most importantly, they like and comment on a lot of the music I grew up with and love. Bravo guys!! 👏😎👍

  • @John_Chu
    @John_Chu Год назад +28

    Michael McDonald on auditioning for Steely Dan in 1973:
    "I literally threw my piano in the back of my Pinto and drove down to where they were rehearsing and auditioned. Remarkably I got the gig, not because of my keyboard playing but because I could sing all the high parts. I could tell that appealed to Donald (Fagen)-'cause I could sing like a girl."

    • @kbrewski1
      @kbrewski1 Год назад +1

      My hometown boy! (St Louis!)
      Seeing Steely Dan with McDonald as the opener and then playing with SD on many tunes during their set on the 2006 Sugartooth McDan tour was very cool. Rousing ovations for MM, and you could tell he got a kick out of playing for the "home crowd". Fagen even ribbed him a few times with snarky quips, but I can't remember them exactly...

  • @realbser1956
    @realbser1956 Год назад +27

    It’s hard to imagine this song with anyone but Michael on background vocals. Another banger from The Dan. ✌️🔥

  • @buddystewart2020
    @buddystewart2020 Год назад +15

    It really is crazy how damn good so many of their songs were. Some people try their whole lives and never write a great song, Steely Dan just has them fall out of the sky.

  • @daveman_50
    @daveman_50 Год назад +19

    Maybe my favorite all-time Dan song. PS, the tempo never changes. The feel changes. That's what they mix up.

  • @SeaMark782
    @SeaMark782 Год назад +12

    My High School friend, 20 YO Jeff Porcaro on drums, he had just finished the 1974 tour with SD. This album is like comfort food, just sublime. Gold Teeth II, Jeff shows some chops, the Groovemaster. It's all about time.
    Night By Night, Parkers Band, Gaucho, The Nightfly

  • @14gilbertst
    @14gilbertst Год назад +6

    Timothy B. Schmit was another voice Steely Dan uses regularly as a backing vocalist. He recorded 9 albums with the band, Poco, then joined The Eagles in 1977.

  • @jacqueline4514
    @jacqueline4514 Год назад +9

    You are so right; Michael MacDonald is involved with so much great music; the collaborations he’s done are amazing; James Ingraham, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Patti LaBelle and so much more.

  • @jmart6888
    @jmart6888 Год назад +48

    Here’s something cool: You guys enjoy these songs from the get-go. I’m one of the 10 biggest SD fans on the planet, and it usually takes me a few listens to “Get” any of their tunes, even though they ultimately become the soundtrack of my life. But, if you do keep listening, even 100 times, you hear something new each time: a great drum fill, an unexpected bass line change, a lyric you re-interpret in a new way. Never gets old, my friends. You two are killing it. As you know, They had it all: amazing musical composition, top-notch performances, incredible lyrics, best engineering and production. And the attitude that they don’t give a fuck what you think.

    • @steelyd2
      @steelyd2 Год назад +2

      Top Ten Dan fans in the world? That is pretty lofty, we might have to test that claim!

    • @jmart6888
      @jmart6888 Год назад +1

      @@steelyd2 who’s this, William Gibson?😝

    • @steelyd2
      @steelyd2 Год назад +1

      @@jmart6888 no, I just consider myself a top Dan fan so if I see someone claiming top ten it makes me sit up and pay attention. I’m just messing with you obviously. I’ll learn something from you real quick with this question though if you want to indulge me. What’s your favorite unreleased steely Dan song? An outtake, demo, bootleg, etc. which one of the 30? or so is your favorite?

    • @jmart6888
      @jmart6888 Год назад +2

      @@steelyd2 Hard to name one, but I’ll say Ida Lee. I like that the hooters and hats resurface several years later.

    • @steelyd2
      @steelyd2 Год назад +1

      @@jmart6888 ok you passed the test. That’s a dark horse choice I like it! “We’re all on the chaise lounge”.

  • @melvinwomack3717
    @melvinwomack3717 Год назад +4

    The ending feels like an ending to a 70s/80s TV sitcom 😁

  • @peterjoslyn1
    @peterjoslyn1 Год назад +18

    What a great song. Great album in fact. I feel jealous, I really do. I can never experience this all again for the first time. But I still love it and get so much joy from their music.

  • @kirkhassett8726
    @kirkhassett8726 Год назад +18

    Let’s be honest, here. Your favorite Steely Dan track is whichever one you’re currently listening to, all right? 😉
    Consistently improbable perfection. ❤🎶

  • @oboogie2
    @oboogie2 Год назад +14

    I usually say that "Deacon Blues" is my favorite Steely Dan song, until this one is playing. Let's be honest, my favorite SD track is always the one I am listening to at the time; however, as much as the groove and message of "Deacon Blues" takes the win usually, this song lyrically captures that sardonic wit of SD best! LOVE IT!!

    • @kbrewski1
      @kbrewski1 Год назад

      I'm kind of the same way, but Aja is my constant #1, Dr Wu usually my #2. After that, it just gets impossible to rank them!

  • @lucasroth7922
    @lucasroth7922 Год назад +2

    You already know what I'm gonna say! Steely Dan, your favorite bands favorite band lol🔥🤘✌

  • @joeypeacock1673
    @joeypeacock1673 Год назад +2

    Love SD. They are a musician's band. Great reaction . Love that Spurs hat.

  • @chrisbarlow2131
    @chrisbarlow2131 11 месяцев назад +1

    So true guys. With The Dan, you just never know where the song is going next, nor the rhythms, nor the melodies. They were wonderful.

  • @jacqueline4514
    @jacqueline4514 Год назад +6

    Will always be my favorite group, and I listen to almost everything. Bravo to another great reaction!!! And you heard Michael ❤

  • @se6550
    @se6550 Год назад +4

    I always feel a little smarter and hipper when I'm listening to Steely Dan. I'm not of course, but I feel that way. ;)

  • @egoequus6263
    @egoequus6263 Год назад +2

    I love everyone hits their note on "Bad" perfectly.

  • @scurvybro8850
    @scurvybro8850 Год назад +2

    Accurate description of Steely Dan: "It's just a whole other genre of music. You can't compare it to anything. Their sound is completely different than anything else. Period."

  • @esdel1955
    @esdel1955 Год назад +5

    My favorite song on my favorite Steely Dan album. Just think, this is from 1975 and sounds like it was recorded yesterday.

  • @classic-kool
    @classic-kool Год назад +6

    I remember listening to this when it was released and thought it was amazing... it really touched my soul. I was 12.

  • @johnfrank3177
    @johnfrank3177 Год назад +7

    Another great Steely Dan gem. Enjoyed your reaction as always. Peace.

  • @caseyporter1235
    @caseyporter1235 Год назад +5

    Nice Saturday morning treat. Very diverse album with lots of cool sounds. Chain Lightning is a smooth trip with guitar by Rick Derringer......

  • @mikebetts2046
    @mikebetts2046 Год назад +21

    At work on a Saturday morning, enjoying listening to one of my favorite groups with two new friends. Yet another of many great songs by Steely Dan.

  • @susanslade4044
    @susanslade4044 Год назад +11

    As common denominators go, you can never go wrong with Michael McDonald. This is music that never gets old.

  • @timcardona9962
    @timcardona9962 Год назад +7

    Great reaction as always
    This song has some really interesting rhythmic ideas going on, as you pointed out, from Fagen's jazzy over-the-bar phrasing to the offbeat chord hits....it's a real stunner of a track.
    Roger Nichols was their engineer but Fagen & Becker were just as involved in that process as they were the music

  • @rc1363
    @rc1363 Год назад +5

    Love Walter's outro in the last few bars of Bad Sneakers. Waiting patiently for Your Gold Teeth II, YGT-I as well, both cuts stretch the Steely Dan genre in wildly different directions.

  • @phonebone81
    @phonebone81 Год назад +2

    Very good compositions + very good lyrics + very good musicians = very good music! What more can you expect. Best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)

  • @clebergstudio1574
    @clebergstudio1574 Год назад +8

    The only group that could create such a tight song about paranoia in a rehab center. The soundscape of road construction during the musical bridge is a brilliantly subtle touch.

  • @markcosenza3274
    @markcosenza3274 Год назад +1

    From the minds of musical geniuses. Poetry to music.

  • @jimmoore8951
    @jimmoore8951 Год назад +2

    This is another example of Dan lyrics that l find myself singing for no reason, despite not having a clue what they’re about. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

  • @deaniegarcia5694
    @deaniegarcia5694 Год назад +8

    I look for your reactions every day now, you guys are the best in RUclips! Your reactions are always insightful, and teach me stuff, and I’ve been a Dan Fan for 50 years now! Thanks for your insight, humor and knowledge!

  • @sipesthebest128
    @sipesthebest128 Год назад +2

    This one is in my SD Top 10... so simple, yet so beautiful.

  • @stevedotwood
    @stevedotwood Год назад +3

    Michael Mc Domald on this one (and then I heard you say "Michael" when I was typing). My fav. on the album is "Your Gold Teeth II" - mind the 2 - Great jazzy track

  • @kbrewski1
    @kbrewski1 Год назад +2

    Another iconic Dan tune with the great Michael Omartian on piano. He was all over the Katy Lied album. I always felt that Aja was the direct link from Katy Lied, both albums very piano driven. Odd that Royal Scam,a more guitar oriented album, was recorded between Katy and Aja.
    Cool you caught Michael McDonald's background vocals so quickly, this was the first SD album he sang on.
    I love your Steely Dan reactions, you "get it" right away because of your musical backgrounds. When I was a pimple faced teen in the mid 70s, I didn't really know how they were making all this music so consistently great, I just knew it really sounded cool, pristine, unique and that I loved it, and have been loving it for 50 years!! Thanks guys!

  • @steelyd2
    @steelyd2 Год назад +10

    Great guitar solo by Walter Becker. He only takes a few per album on the classic 70s records (he does almost all of the lead guitar work on their stuff after 1990) it’s not flashy but so tasty

    • @rc1363
      @rc1363 Год назад +1

      According to Donald, Walter had excellent "feel" - his licks always seemed to perfectly match the tune.

    • @steelyd2
      @steelyd2 Год назад +1

      @@rc1363 absolutely. His solo on Home at Last is cool, Josie is another good one. Of course Pretzel Logic and Black Friday are cool bluesy solos. He takes some good ones on Kamakiriad too

  • @stevemd6488
    @stevemd6488 Год назад +6

    Back to my high school days. There were times things were so hard I felt like was going insane. Love this song, always a crowd favorite when they started touring again in the 90s

  • @genecase9464
    @genecase9464 Год назад +9

    This is easily in my top 10...15...20..25...25/30...30...35 Steely Dan songs! Maybe 40. Can"t decide. How do you fit 40 songs in a top 10 list? 🤪

    • @AirplayBeats
      @AirplayBeats  Год назад +1

      😂

    • @ammaleslie509
      @ammaleslie509 10 месяцев назад

      My Spotify best Of Steely Dan playlist has 25 songs on it

  • @loupi4bama
    @loupi4bama Год назад +5

    Some people literally made fun of my love for Michael McDonald over the years. I always told them they seriously needed to take some music appreciation classes.

  • @Ibanezed210
    @Ibanezed210 Год назад +2

    Happy, uplifting music yet thought provoking at the same time.

    • @kbrewski1
      @kbrewski1 Год назад

      "Going insane, laughing through the frozen rain...." lmao😂

  • @peterdellos8824
    @peterdellos8824 Год назад +2

    Always another tasty track with them! Third World Man hopefully next. Thank you for your attention and admiration of "the Dan"!

  • @johncanning731
    @johncanning731 Год назад +3

    Thx for a great reaction to this track!! This is a jam!! It brings back so many memories from what seems a life time ago..Shout out from the old metal head from Detroit..Peace and love..

  • @billschafer9668
    @billschafer9668 Год назад +4

    Digging your reviews guys. This is a great up tempo Dan song. How can you go wrong with Michael McDonald harmonizing. Walter Becker does the guitar solo.

  • @ML-un1oi
    @ML-un1oi Год назад +3

    Another great reaction. I really appreciate your knowledge and appreciation of music. 🙏

  • @belowsealevel8663
    @belowsealevel8663 Год назад +3

    Little Feat "Red Streamliner". They bring the funk on this track with Michael McDonald on back-up vocals. One of my favorites.

  • @markburnham7512
    @markburnham7512 Год назад +3

    If you want to read a piece about the technical issues that cursed the making of this record, do a search for a piece called "Katy and the Gremlin" by Denny Dias. A very interesting read.

  • @jimakcelik6486
    @jimakcelik6486 Год назад +3

    Next album - Countdown to Ecstasy - starting with the first song - Bodhisattva, by the time you get to song #3 - Boston Rag - and #4 - Your Gold Teeth you will understand its title.

  • @Sober2003
    @Sober2003 Год назад +2

    I’m just sitting here listening to you guys do this reaction while watching the Ranger game. I sometimes have my best thoughts and realizations while multitasking! Lol I’m thinking how nice it must be discovering new music you guys are reacting to for the first time at this stage in your lives as accomplished musicians and engineers yourselves. In a way I have rediscovered some of the music of my younger years by listening to whole albums nowadays on RUclips and other music platforms while doing my art. Ya see growing up when we bought an album for the most part we bought it for a few songs we listened to on the radio. Not all but most albums you just picked the needle up and either skipped music or kinda rushed through it. I also think because we were inundated with so much good music hitting the airwaves. But getting back to my original thought I’m a little envious of you guys. I also had a huge spectrum of music I listened to being I had 3 older brothers who were into different music than myself. My oldest brother loved the oldies and Motown. Then came singer songwriter and southern rock with another and the third who was close to my age liked disco and R&B. So I loved it all and didn’t miss much! I’d love to see what you guys listened too growing up! Anyway love your style keep grooving!❤👍🏻👌🏻💪🏻

  • @tjmasson1013
    @tjmasson1013 Год назад +1

    So clean. Brings me back to fm radio chillin on the porch in NY

  • @larryfellows825
    @larryfellows825 Год назад

    That ditch out in the valley they’re digging just for me.. gold

  • @emilymartinez6961
    @emilymartinez6961 Год назад +1

    Just the way l like to wake up with weekend morning music, as my kids used to say👍🥰🎵

  • @paullacroix527
    @paullacroix527 Год назад +3

    Love this album. You can hear the change from the first 3 records. Though as you say there were hints of what they wanted to do. They are just 2 now and started bringing in special session players. BTW you said you finished Gaucho but I don't think (I couldn't find it) you listened to the last song, the last of the 1972-80 run of excellence. 'Third World Man' is the one you missed. The last song as a team for over 20yrs. Great vocals of course, special harmonies and IMO Larry Carlton's most beautiful guitar work and a perfect outro. Love the Dan. Great stuff guys...

    • @AirplayBeats
      @AirplayBeats  Год назад +3

      Yea we have one more left on Gaucho. I’ve got so much music in my head these days that I’m losing track. 😂

  • @thomassicard3733
    @thomassicard3733 Год назад

    The time is consistent. The subdivision, impetus, head nod... Yeah. That is gonna vary. In fact, ...
    Many times (not just with you guys), my head is nodding at 1/2 to 1/4 the speed yours are. Then again, I have been listening to these SD phrases for decades - many decades. So, ...
    Yeah.

  • @richardmcdonough4500
    @richardmcdonough4500 Год назад +6

    Another great Steely Dan song. You still need to do "Third World Man" from the Gaucho album.

    • @AirplayBeats
      @AirplayBeats  Год назад +2

      You’re right!! We got one more to go on that album. I thought it was over

    • @lucabraga3471
      @lucabraga3471 Год назад +2

      Yeah, Third world man has one of the best guitar solo of all music, on my opinion, and is Joni Mitchell's favourite song!

  • @timgrady4630
    @timgrady4630 Год назад +2

    Yeah exactly .
    Gotta reserve a separate Shelf for the Dan's Vinyls .
    Katy Lied just might be a "Creeper" kinda album ...sneaky good (like "Bad Sneakers" ... couldn't resist ...hah !) .

  • @metaphoria3
    @metaphoria3 Год назад

    Love that 70’s Far East sounding guitar intro lead sound

  • @se6550
    @se6550 Год назад +2

    Love it!! Great tune. :)

  • @yashicafr
    @yashicafr 10 месяцев назад

    All true the comments, in the 70s there were so so many great bands that i was brought up with, but no group apart from the Beatles had such a stunning catalogue of tracks!!!

  • @benoitdesmarais2948
    @benoitdesmarais2948 Год назад +2

    You guys should do some Joni Mitchell. Steely and her shared a lot of musicians - from Larry Carlton and Wayne Shorter to... Michael McDonald (they did a duo on her song "Good Friends"), and her 74-75 albums (Court & Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns) definately share some vibes.

  • @cityhonors1
    @cityhonors1 Год назад +1

    🤗 The Dan is back! 😚 Cool Beans! 🥰🐰

  • @dcmanuel7232
    @dcmanuel7232 Год назад +1

    Gary Katz is a legendary producer and did all the 70s Steely Dan albums.

  • @cameronstestingart794
    @cameronstestingart794 Год назад

    Did we really have transistors then? Wow, I’m old! Another banger. We never knew what to expect from them but we did know they would be 🔥

  • @davidrauh8118
    @davidrauh8118 Год назад +2

    When Michael M. does background vocals his voice sounds like more than one person. Like 2 or 3 people are singing in unison. He's not the songwriter that Donald Fagen is, but then again he ain't no slouch either. This album is chock full of great little tunes.

  • @junkettarp8942
    @junkettarp8942 15 дней назад

    Modern masters.

  • @mimig3904
    @mimig3904 Год назад +4

    You need to listen to Chain Lightning from this same album & a totally different sound from them. After that go to Countdown to Ecstasy and listen to Bodhisattva---you won't regret it.

  • @bobburroughs6241
    @bobburroughs6241 Год назад +1

    The wonders of SD!

  • @RichardJoniChin
    @RichardJoniChin 4 месяца назад

    They are engineering masters

  • @chrisproffitt6198
    @chrisproffitt6198 Год назад

    Time and tempo is an afterthought with Steely Dan. They are the shit

  • @rhwinner
    @rhwinner Год назад +3

    You can clearly hear McDonald in the backing vocals.

  • @juletraylor5829
    @juletraylor5829 9 месяцев назад

    that's the stuff right there, yep that's it for sure........

  • @brucemacmillan9581
    @brucemacmillan9581 Год назад

    Would've been nice to have some comments on Dan lyrics. Cuz it's such a big part of their songwriting.

  • @MrDirty-if7gc
    @MrDirty-if7gc Год назад +4

    I love this album, but I can't wait until you get to Pretzel Logic.

  • @metaphoria3
    @metaphoria3 Год назад

    That chorus is so catchy but so outta nowhere

  • @ryanand154
    @ryanand154 11 месяцев назад

    That ditch out in the valley that they’re digging just for me.

  • @jeffmiller4832
    @jeffmiller4832 Год назад +1

    Have you gentlemen reacted to Robin Trower yet? If not; may I suggest Too Rolling Stoned. Three piece band, drummer, bass player(vocals) and guitar (Robin Trower). I don’t think, I know, both of you will be pleasantly surprised. I totally enjoy your reaction videos. Keep up the excellent work. 🍻🖖

  • @bubatoo
    @bubatoo Год назад

    The album cover of Katy Lied shows a grasshopper which is one of the family of insects called KATYDIDS

  • @bobziadie2988
    @bobziadie2988 2 месяца назад

    One of my favorite Dan tunes! Has there ever been a better backup singer than Michael McDonald?

  • @georgetaxi8179
    @georgetaxi8179 Год назад +1

    The late great Jeff Porcaro is on drums. Please check out the band Toto, Porcaro's main band.
    You can start with their most popular tunes Rosanna, Africa, and Hold the Line. No doubt you heard all those tunes, but they have a ton of great music that you guys would dig.

  • @metaphoria3
    @metaphoria3 Год назад

    That solo in the bridge around 3:00 sounds like John Mayer

  • @Estiv1961
    @Estiv1961 Год назад +1

    Being you guys really like Steely Dan you all ask lots of questions about the group but have never asked how they got the name well once you find out you’ll get a chuckle.

    • @kbrewski1
      @kbrewski1 Год назад

      I think that was covered in their first few Dan reactions via comments 😉.

  • @fjpapp7952
    @fjpapp7952 Год назад

    Oh the chords, the chords..

  • @sutech161
    @sutech161 Год назад

    I can digit!! groovy // farout... and all that ........

  • @billcopeland581
    @billcopeland581 Год назад +1

    If you want to check out Walter singing, hit "Slang of Ages" from Everything Must Go. Great song.

  • @tonydoran5147
    @tonydoran5147 Год назад

    Yes Katydid!! ..

  • @ThePittsburghToddy
    @ThePittsburghToddy Год назад +2

    Oddly, Steely Dan has legions of haters, proving that they were were doing something right!🖖🏼

    • @kbrewski1
      @kbrewski1 Год назад

      If everyone liked them, they'd become Abba or The Carpenters....

  • @maine420grow
    @maine420grow Год назад

    They spent MONTHS in the studio. Longer sometimes.

  • @blackwolf6082
    @blackwolf6082 Год назад +2

    Finish Gaucho with Third World Man

  • @stevez2648
    @stevez2648 Год назад

    I'm waiting to see what you think of Two Against Nature

  • @rosemarypugliese2984
    @rosemarypugliese2984 Год назад

    My Gold Teeth II, Rose Darling - and wait til you get to Godwhacker or West of Hollywood on later albums

  • @xebio6
    @xebio6 Год назад +1

    Donald Fagen's "New Frontier" next, please

  • @romeosyne
    @romeosyne Год назад

    Guitar solo by Walter Carl Becker

  • @dalenicol1027
    @dalenicol1027 Год назад +1

    In 70s when salesmen demoed stereo they always used steely Dan because it was recorded so well . I believe Fagan and Becker would work with engineering until it was perfect probably driving engender crazy. I hope you don't take offence but album is interchangeable with record and we called individual music songs on record

  • @Ibanezed210
    @Ibanezed210 Год назад

    And I've been meaning to ask, are those bobble head dolls in the background or Fram oil filters?

    • @AirplayBeats
      @AirplayBeats  Год назад +1

      They are Funko Pops. Similar to bobble heads.

  • @janishaldeman3339
    @janishaldeman3339 Год назад

    Y'all need to do show biz kids

  • @douglasfrazier2856
    @douglasfrazier2856 Год назад

    I think the persona signing the sing is a crazy homeless person in some city downtown - NYC presumably

  • @jamespagdon2998
    @jamespagdon2998 Год назад

    Police officer undercover to long, wearing "with a transistor and a large sum of money to spend" picturing a grave already dug for him "That ditch out in the valley that they're digging just for me" and wanting to come in from the cold because he is going insane...

  • @melvinwomack3717
    @melvinwomack3717 Год назад

    Mike McDonald that's it

  • @williamkeese9287
    @williamkeese9287 Год назад

    ruclips.net/video/4p1VDHzoFiE/видео.html Stevie ray, his brother Jimmie, Angela strehli, and Kim Wilson on harp " don't fall for me baby"

  • @mynameispaul0530
    @mynameispaul0530 Год назад

    Katy lied. You can see it in her eyes. 🎶