"Deacon Blues" is just too long to respond to. It's a great song for chilling or driving for long distances, but to be on screen having people stare at you for such a long time would be a bit much.
They started as a band I remember their 2nd tour still pretty much a band, then they started moving to using studio musicians both in studio and live. They've moved on now to mainly pro touring musicians and occasionally when available some of the studio musicians that were on the albums. But like most band there are the core members who wrote and produced most the music. Pretty much all bands since the earliest days members come and go and sometimes hired guns become "members". Look at the Rolling Stones still called a band, but they've a lot of people in and out of the band over the years, but as long as Jagger and Richards are still the key members they are a band. Steely Dan it was Fagan and Becker now it's just Fagen doing a mix of his solo work and old "Dan" songs the people want to hear. Band has a lot of meanings.
The 1960s and 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by a myriad of great bands and artists! You could hardly change the channel without finding a GREAT song! 👍
Aja is definitely great but we had it on a 8 track. 😂. We had a bunch of 8 tracks but I can only remember America’s Greatest Hits and Aja for some reason.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja", "Deacon Blues" and "FM" !!!!! Thank you for doing this one !!! edit - Walter Becker on the guitar solos!
Other Steely Dan you'd probably like would be, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, FM, Aja, Pretzel Logic, Caves of Altamira, Royal Scam, The Fez, Hey Nineteen, Time out of mind, Babylon sisters
Nobody fuses jazz, rock, and funk better than Steely Dan, what a class act! Fun fact: Chevy Chase, Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker played in the same college band named “The Leather Canary.” After Chevy left the band, the remaining two band members would go on to form Steely Dan. ✌️
Steely Dan. The perfect fusion of rock, jazz and funk! Their adept ability at producing such iconic music is phenomenal! Ive never been disappointed. Enjoy.
Their long time keyboardist recently passed away. May he and Walter Becker rest in peace. I was supposed to see them last fall with The Eagles but Donald Fagen was recovering from illness. Fabulous band. Have loved them since the 70s as a child.
Good choice, picking "Josie". "Aja" is one of the greatest albums anyone ever produced. Next time, please try "Home at Last"; it is absolutely beautiful.
"Aja" is one of the greatest albums ever. Every song is a gem. "Josie" and the title track are my most favorite songs on top of favorites. I do agree with Amber though, that "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is still my #1 Steely Dan song. 😄
Steely Dan's Aja album is one of the most perfect records ever made. Not a single hair (note) is out of place. It's everything you want music (art) to be. I have treasured it.
So glad you're getting into their later music. Next: Black Cow and Deacon Blues from the same album, and Hey Nineteen, Babylon Sisters and Glamour Profession from the Gaucho album. All of these have that same groovy/funky vibe!
The most perfectly recorded pop album of all time. The best of many dozens of studio players trying their hand at creating this incredible Jazz /blues/ rock /greasy / funky fusion. There is a documentary about the making of this famous record.
IMHO, this album is their finest and that's saying a lot because all of their albums are great. Please check out the title track next. You'll be blown away.
Love that you love Steely Dan and are finally taking in a song from their Aja recording, which is so jazzy and still sounds fresh today. Next, you’ll have to listen to Deacon Blues from the same album, which I guarantee you’ll love.
Steely Dan is currently on tour with the Eagles. I saw them Monday night in concert!!! Steely Dan was the opening act. They performed for an hour. And yes, they played this song!!! What a fun coincidence for me to find you two reacting to a group that I saw in concert only a few days ago!!! 😂🎉❤
@@brendarogers1036 gonna have to give that a miss, I’m in London 😂.. I see that they will be in Manchester later in the year, 4 hrs away. I’m surprised they’re not doing Wembley 😞
Donald Fagen - synthesizers, vocals Walter Becker - guitar solos Victor Feldman - electric piano Larry Carlton - guitar Dean Parks - guitar Chuck Rainey - bass Jim Keltner - drums, percussion Timothy B. Schmit - backing vocals
A number of years ago, I was at the international steel guitar convention in St Louis. I had watched a couple of guys playing "Realing in the Years" on steel and it was awesome. At a dinner party I sat and talked to one of the musicians for quite a while. After he left, my buddy said that it was cool that I got to talk to that guy. I asked who he was and he told me it was Dean Parks who played a lot of guitar for Stealy Dan. Dean played guitar on this song.
Aja the track is my favourite. It’s a masterpiece of jazz rock music. The best musicians. Who knew a duet between a drummer and a saxophone would make such a great combo.
One of my favorite bands. Love all their music. And even though I've heard this song a gazillion times, enough to be sick of it, it's still my favorite Steely Dan tune.
I Saw the Dukes of September with Donald Fagen ,Micheal McDonald and Boz Scags and eight other musicians and back up singers . Me and my girlfriend left smiling . It was a feeling of being lucky enough to see it live and know how special it was
Good seeing the squad again... Josie was the pride of `77 disco lighted dance floor and Chuck Rainey slappin on that bass is that groove people, so get your hips on the floor I mean the disco floor, giddyup Squad
My RUclips name says it all. My favorite band of all time including Donald’s solo stuff. There isn’t a bad song. I routinely play their entire discography from beginning to end.
The thing about Steely Dan and Donald Fagen is that they're all just so damn well educated. Musically and stylistically. Often times I need some education just to interpret their work -for which I am then grateful. Academically, I'd say Steely Dan is tops. And you cannot take that away from them. All I can do is listen and learn.
When someone says you can never go wrong with Steely Dan, they mean it…..and they’re right!! What a GREAT song this is!!
Amen! Every SD track is outstanding. Never a bad tune from them. Night by Night is excellent.
Reelin in the Years is my favorite...
Great choice 😊
The best!
True, So Very True!
You are right!
You can’t go wrong with Steely Dan!
It’s seriously time for “Deacon Blues”!
Yes, please! I could listen any time.
Deacon Blues is a definite winner. I hope they get to it.
"Deacon Blues" is just too long to respond to. It's a great song for chilling or driving for long distances, but to be on screen having people stare at you for such a long time would be a bit much.
They already did "Deacon Blues."
I guess it was removed then because it is not listed when you do a search.@@rlwetz4317
Steely Dan one of the greatest Rock bands ever!!!
For sure!
Uh, not really a Band... research them.
@@eldandonsmith5372 um, not really a rock band...better
They started as a band I remember their 2nd tour still pretty much a band, then they started moving to using studio musicians both in studio and live. They've moved on now to mainly pro touring musicians and occasionally when available some of the studio musicians that were on the albums. But like most band there are the core members who wrote and produced most the music. Pretty much all bands since the earliest days members come and go and sometimes hired guns become "members". Look at the Rolling Stones still called a band, but they've a lot of people in and out of the band over the years, but as long as Jagger and Richards are still the key members they are a band. Steely Dan it was Fagan and Becker now it's just Fagen doing a mix of his solo work and old "Dan" songs the people want to hear. Band has a lot of meanings.
It is closer to jazz fusion
"Aja" Is one of the best albums ever! The 70's were such a great time for music!!
The 1960s and 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by a myriad of great bands and artists!
You could hardly change the channel without finding a GREAT song! 👍
Aja is definitely great but we had it on a 8 track. 😂. We had a bunch of 8 tracks but I can only remember America’s Greatest Hits and Aja for some reason.
Josie has always been my favorite song from that album.
@@MegaSammy70 I have a hard time picking a favorite from that album, so many great songs!
Greatest decade ever!
Three Steely Dan bangers you might not have done yet: "Black Friday," "Bodhisattva," "Green Earrings."
Boom!
I concur 100%....
glamour profession is terrific
@@LSorr3
Right you are! Odd, isn't it, that so few people react to that one?
"Don't Take Me Alive"
Amber was GROOVIN on this one!!
Every musican of the day wanted to be on a Steely Dan album....perfectionists only.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja", "Deacon Blues" and "FM" !!!!! Thank you for doing this one !!!
edit - Walter Becker on the guitar solos!
FM is cold
And Black Cow
I remember the Movie FM, haven’t watched it in a while, but great movie
FM is the tune I have been looking forward to!
❤ No static at all!
Can't get any cooler than Steely Dan
Aren’t they just the best. Been listening and Re listening to them for over 40 years. Never get tired of them.
FM was my intro to FM radio and Steely Dan.
Steely Dan "Aja" is one of my all time favorite albums. Every track on that album is greatness.
That drumming! Lets give credit to groove that elevates the song to another level.
Jim Keltner
Other Steely Dan you'd probably like would be, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, FM, Aja, Pretzel Logic, Caves of Altamira, Royal Scam, The Fez, Hey Nineteen, Time out of mind, Babylon sisters
YES to all!!!!
Agree to all of the above. ❤
Finally!!! Steely Dan!! You have to do more!!!
They've done Steely Dan several times over their 3 year run.
Yes please!
She's the raw flame.
She's the live wire,
She plays rock n' roll,
With her eyes on fire.
Every guy needs this kinda woman in his life somewhere.
I agree, but it's "She prays like a Roman/With her eyes on fire"
Kid charlemagne should be in your list
Jay will love that one guaranteed
Kid Charlemagne next please. Trust me.
Steely Dan = Jazz/Rock Fusion! The bomb!
Steely Dan is the reason there’s two o’s in the word smooth !!!🎸🤘🎶😄
R.I.P. Jim Beard. He was with Steely Dan for the past 15 years or so and such a great talent. He will be missed.
Steely Dan is your favorite bands favorite band 🔥✌🤘
Nobody fuses jazz, rock, and funk better than Steely Dan, what a class act! Fun fact: Chevy Chase, Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker played in the same college band named “The Leather Canary.” After Chevy left the band, the remaining two band members would go on to form Steely Dan. ✌️
Wow! What a wonderful story! Thanks so much.
Another Steely Dan song with great bass and horns is Peg. Thanks for this one too.
Steely Dan - Home At Last
Steely Dan - King Of The World
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Midnight Cruiser
Steely Dan - Dr. Wu
I don't think they've reacted to "FM" yet either. That's one of their very best!
I second "Home at Last"!
No static at all
Home At Last in my favorite song by them.
Home At Last
Caves Of Altamira
Third World Man
Bad Sneakers
Steely Dan. The perfect fusion of rock, jazz and funk! Their adept ability at producing such iconic music is phenomenal! Ive never been disappointed. Enjoy.
And BLUES!
Their long time keyboardist recently passed away. May he and Walter Becker rest in peace. I was supposed to see them last fall with The Eagles but Donald Fagen was recovering from illness. Fabulous band. Have loved them since the 70s as a child.
RIP Jim Beard :(
I saw Steely Dan and the Eagles at Madison Sq Garden in NYC on that tour. Just incredible...both bands.
@@daler4911 I'm sure. I will say The Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald were a great substitute.
RIP Ted Baker.
Their instrumentation is always perfection.
I am older and feel glad I grew up and experienced the BEST music this world has ever seen!
The entire Aja album is spectacular. Not a bad song on the entire album.
One of the best studio albums ever made 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Not only a great album musically but it's also one of the best recorded and mixed albums of all time.
Steely Dan. The collection of the greatest musicians any generation has ever known.
Absolute truth! You don't get to play with Steely Dan unless you're the cream of the crop.
The time is always right for Steely Dan. Great song!
My favorite Steely Dan song. I grew up in the 70s and had all their albums. Josie. She prays like a Roman, with her eyes on fire
the whole AJA album is one of the biggest masterpieces of modern music. FULL STOP
YAYYYYY Josie !!! One of my favorite Dan Songs......Its so good!
Steely Dans keyboardest Jim Beard died just 3 days ago.
Him and Lyle Mays with Pat Metheny Group, underrated.
So sad. 😥 ~thank you for letting us know.
We're losing them all. Real talents who were all about the music.
Rest in Shalom, Jim Beard. May his music and work continue to bless us. May his family be comforted for their loss.
Steely Dan. A style all their own. No sound like a Steely Dan tune
The Eagles lyric in Hotel California ‘ They stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast ‘ is a reference to this great band
Someone said Steely Dan is your favourite band's favourite band.
Also, every rapper steals from the Dan!
Sometimes you forget HOW good The Dan are.
I'm making music myself since I was little, but this is another dimension.
All my life, the Beatles were my fave band. At my age SD are right up there. Still not ready to make Beatles #2, but SD are truly great.
I love Amber’s take on this song. Steely Dan takes you on a musical journey.
oh, and you've got to listen to their "FM", if you like a funky groove
Good choice, picking "Josie". "Aja" is one of the greatest albums anyone ever produced. Next time, please try "Home at Last"; it is absolutely beautiful.
One of the best recorded bands in the studio. Everything's so clean and precise.
"Aja" is one of the greatest albums ever. Every song is a gem. "Josie" and the title track are my most favorite songs on top of favorites. I do agree with Amber though, that "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is still my #1 Steely Dan song. 😄
Steely Dan's Aja album is one of the most perfect records ever made. Not a single hair (note) is out of place. It's everything you want music (art) to be. I have treasured it.
Definitely check out "FM", "Deacon Blues" or "Black Cow" next time.
So glad you're getting into their later music. Next: Black Cow and Deacon Blues from the same album, and Hey Nineteen, Babylon Sisters and Glamour Profession from the Gaucho album. All of these have that same groovy/funky vibe!
Chuck Raney a brother from Cleveland. The man was a master bass player.
Still is
The most perfectly recorded pop album of all time. The best of many dozens of studio players trying their hand at creating this incredible Jazz /blues/ rock /greasy / funky fusion. There is a documentary about the making of this famous record.
Looove Steely Dan!!
🤔When I first heard of Steely Dan, and their style of play, I didn't know they were playing a form of Jazz!!🧐I love the band!!😁
IMHO, this album is their finest and that's saying a lot because all of their albums are great. Please check out the title track next. You'll be blown away.
Agree 100%
Love that you love Steely Dan and are finally taking in a song from their Aja recording, which is so jazzy and still sounds fresh today. Next, you’ll have to listen to Deacon Blues from the same album, which I guarantee you’ll love.
Every Steely Dan album is a gem. They were on a level all their own in the 70’s. The music still sounds amazing 40+ years later.
Ahhhhh, Steely Dan! Ultra superb.
One of my top 5 Dan songs (and that harder to pin down than it seems!).
I never get tired of listening to Steely Dan.
When I go on a long road trip, I make sure to take my Steely Dan’s Greatest Hit CD along
Steely Dan is currently on tour with the Eagles. I saw them Monday night in concert!!!
Steely Dan was the opening act. They performed for an hour. And yes, they played this song!!! What a fun coincidence for me to find you two reacting to a group that I saw in concert only a few days ago!!! 😂🎉❤
Lucky you, where are they playing?
They’re gonna be in Charlotte North Carolina on the 16th.
@@brendarogers1036 gonna have to give that a miss, I’m in London 😂.. I see that they will be in Manchester later in the year, 4 hrs away. I’m surprised they’re not doing Wembley 😞
Steely Dan was some of the best musicians in the business.
Growing up in Gary, Indiana in the late 70's, Steely Dan was bad-ass. Everyone loved them. A fusion of jazz, funk, and rock. What's not to love?!
A jazzy and funky banger for sure!!!!
I love their groove! Always ❤❤
I came home from my Freshman year of college and my mom had put a Blaupunkt tape system in my car as a surprise and the first tape I bought was Aja!
This whole album is amazing!
I was lycky enough to see these two together right before half of this Iconic sound/band passed. So Amazing live.
In my family the sound of Steely Dan bring up memories of picnics & bbq’s.
if you love music you must own this album.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST RECORDED AND PRODUCED ALBUMS
Love this song. My cousin named her daughter Josie after this song.
One of their best
Donald Fagen - synthesizers, vocals
Walter Becker - guitar solos
Victor Feldman - electric piano
Larry Carlton - guitar
Dean Parks - guitar
Chuck Rainey - bass
Jim Keltner - drums, percussion
Timothy B. Schmit - backing vocals
Such a fabulous, funky sound; great, quirky lyrics and wizardry in the playing and production. Everything they did was stellar. I love The Dan!
A number of years ago, I was at the international steel guitar convention in St Louis. I had watched a couple of guys playing "Realing in the Years" on steel and it was awesome. At a dinner party I sat and talked to one of the musicians for quite a while. After he left, my buddy said that it was cool that I got to talk to that guy. I asked who he was and he told me it was Dean Parks who played a lot of guitar for Stealy Dan. Dean played guitar on this song.
Good timing. In four days I’ll be at the Eagles and Dan show in Toronto. Can’t wait.
Do give the title track, Aja, a whirl….one of my faves.
Aja the track is my favourite. It’s a masterpiece of jazz rock music. The best musicians. Who knew a duet between a drummer and a saxophone would make such a great combo.
The AJA Album is pure GOLD.....love it
One of their top 5! Very funky, yet smooth!
💙Steely Dan!!!
One of my favorite bands. Love all their music. And even though I've heard this song a gazillion times, enough to be sick of it, it's still my favorite Steely Dan tune.
LOVE the way you two swing and move. You are totally JAMMIN' to these guys! Great reaction!
Steely Dan is always a great choice! 🌺✌️
Such a cool groove. The Aja album is pure genius all the way around!
Love this song! Always think of my Mom. Her name was Josie! And she definitely was a live wire and pride of the neighborhood!
I Saw the Dukes of September with Donald Fagen ,Micheal McDonald and Boz Scags and eight other musicians and back up singers . Me and my girlfriend left smiling . It was a feeling of being lucky enough to see it live and know how special it was
Always felt like there was a mysterious vibe to Steely Dan when i was a kid.
Ha! I just saw them in concert last night with the Eagles and they were awesome!
The suprise element is a important element in music
The absolutely best album since the 70s. Listen to the complete album and you willlike it. "Home At Last" and the intro song "Black Cow" is soo good
Y’all are right on, must listen with eyes closed, Steely Dan= immaculate vibes 🖤
Good seeing the squad again... Josie was the pride of `77 disco lighted dance floor and Chuck Rainey slappin on that bass is that groove people, so get your hips on the floor I mean the disco floor, giddyup Squad
My RUclips name says it all. My favorite band of all time including Donald’s solo stuff. There isn’t a bad song. I routinely play their entire discography from beginning to end.
私は日本の歳をとった男だが、
若い貴方たちはアメリカにSteely Danっていう希代の素晴らしいミュージシャンがいることを心の底から感謝しなくてはいけない
The thing about Steely Dan and Donald Fagen is that they're all just so damn well educated. Musically and stylistically. Often times I need some education just to interpret their work -for which I am then grateful. Academically, I'd say Steely Dan is tops. And you cannot take that away from them. All I can do is listen and learn.
You were hooked real quick on this one, Amber! This album is one of the all-time classics of the '70s. Every song is artistic genius.
You're so Right Amber! Thanks Y'all for making us all 😊!! ✌️
no matter the situation .... steeley dan will fill the void .
"We're gonna lay down the law and break it" BADASS
i like how the both stop dancing when the first chord changes came