Steely Dan Y2K Rehearsals
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Steely Dan rehearsing at Sony for the upcoming Y2K tour. Then it looks like rehearsals for VH1 Storytellers.
Edit: thanks to Pete Fogel we have more intel on the tape “These are not the rehearsals for the summer tour. These are the rehearsals for the filming of the Sony Studios shows. (PBS special)
First part is at SIR -West 52nd St. NYC. The second part is at Sony Studios on Tenth Ave. This was all filmed right in the middle of the Jazz/Plush documentary so, I was at all of these tapings. January, 2000”
This video is a treat because we also get to look through Roger's eyes, and of course he filmed the console and his mic placement. ha.
Could you imagine having a band like Steely Dan that spent years in the studio and have to figure out how to bring it to the people live. After The Steely Dan Band disbanded (Pretzel Logic?) they retreated to the studio creating some of the most exhilaratingly complex and technically masterful albums. Not that the Steely Dan Band wasn't great, because it was (Love you Skunk and Denny! ) BUT it was different, in my opinion.
Kudos to all the amazing musicians and dad that figured out how to bring the Steely Dan Sound to a live audience. That Y2K Tour looked so awesome (I was there a few times, I was kinda a wild teen sorry family!)
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I'm telling ya this is the Dan at their peak.
*A Brush with Fame Down Memory Lane:* That black saxophonist with the big beard is named Corny Bumpus. I used to play little $10 coffee shop gigs with him playing jazz standards - guitar and sax/flute duos. It was obvious to everybody that he was by far the most talented musician in town but he was humble and super nice and supportive to everybody including me. Usually talent and human warmth and compassion are inversely proportional but he had both in copious quantities. It didn't surprise me at all when he got so successful and it was a tragedy when he died young of some medical condition. As I recall he didn't drink or do drugs. At one point he had a local band called Corny & the Corvettes. He was the kind of person that gives you faith in humanity.
YES!! Cornelius was so kind. And yes, because of guys like him, my dad, john denver etc I was like you know what, you CAN be talented AND nice and that’s the people I want in my life. ❤️❤️
R.I.P. Walter Becker, Cornelius Bumpus and Ricky Lawson
RIP Ted Baker.
Yessss what an amazing "behind the scenes " compilation 👍👍👍👍👍🤙🤙🤙I am Tars Lootens , a professional all round composer/ pianist/ arranger , producer, from Belgium 🙏🎹🎹🤛THIS IS MORE GREATER THAN MY (I AM ADDICTED TO ) the very best chocolate, more over , oh yess, From Belgium ..!! . since1 week i suddenly stopped , eating chocolates and sweet , suger cakes .. SO YESS, I LOVE TO ENJOY THIS BEAUTIFULL COMPILATION OF MY VERY FAVORITE BAND "Steely Dan 🎹🎹🎹🎹🙏🙏🎷🎤🎤🎸🎸🎸it is super , i studied many times , on my " absolute "hearing , this crazy super musicians , but in the early times , we did not have all this tools, like videos we, musicians had to practice , on ear the hundreds of amazing music, so now , i am so so lucky, since social media, and all platforms are ON
What a treat! Like following them on the road - the parts we never get to see. thank you for uploading this - my favorite band of all time!
My favorite band by far! Every song ,every album!
R.I.P. Jim Beard
We waited 20 years for this album....and now it's 23 years old?!?!?!?
oh no lol. don't do that!! NO MORE MATH FOR YOU
The wait for Gaucho lasted 3 years. That was at least 3 times longer.
Millenial Steely Dan fan here. This is so cool! Thanks for sharing your father's videos.
This is so incredible. Two Against Nature is RIGHT up there for my favorite of their works… watching them work through What a Shame 🥹🥹🥹 THANK YOU Cimcie. I completely blew my mom’s mind with the Schlitz jingle this morning.
Cimcie, again thanks so much for these videos! It really is a peek behind the Steely Dan curtain on a level that we've never had before.🥰🥰
Yup, a real treat, thank you! 🍾❤️
I love that you love them. I will share until I run out. 🥰 And then y'all will be stuck with my sound therapy videos and hijinks. 😆
@@iamcimcie No problem with that at all; as someone who just knew music from a really early age and has never taken a music theory or instrument lesson in my life, I know that music and sound has the most powerful properties of any force on this planet. For starters, what other artform can elicit such a wide range of emotions?
Things like Chladni plate experiments simply can't lie. Prayer bowls exist for a reason. The original vibration of the universe is a discernible note, and listening to binaural beats is shown to improve one's mood.
Its ALL about sound.❤
@@EddieG1888 YESSS!! I love all of that. It’s amazing what sound can do, I am really digging vibrational medicine right now, physically feeling the sound waves.
@@iamcimcieYep, there are definite properties behind it all, some of which even we don't understand at this point.
(And then, just as I was commenting on bowls above, I go and miss your stream on exactly that this evening!)
Was your dad interested in the therapeutic properties of sounds and tones? It seems that given his deep immersion into the science of producing sound accurately, it might be a subject he'd have given even a cursory look at.
Man, Ricky Lawson is so smooth and effortless! Wow. Total finesse and groove-- what a pocket and what efficient technique.
he was such a nice guy too.
@@iamcimcie Did you meet him?
@@mikeadiddle yes! and he was always so gracious - he signed a drum stick and gave one to my sister
@@iamcimcie, that's awesome. Drummers are the best-- DAMHIK. 😀
This is history. Thanks to Roger for his presence of mind to document these moments for all time! And thank you dear Cimcie for taking your precious time to put these great takes online for us to enjoy.
Roger knew what he was doing. I'm sure he enjoyed every minute. What a fortunate soul !
Perfect sound everytime. RIP ROGER NICHOLS 💖
👍 YOU ~ ROCK ! ! 🤛
This video is incredible!
And as a fellow artist, I love seeing behind the scenes sruff. Especially when it comes to Steely Dan. RIP WALTER BECKER 💖
Steely Dan is a pure addiction
Thanks Cimcie, I really enjoyed this little space in time. Bringing it from rehearsal space to a live act was the rebirth of SD. I absolutely remember how excited we all were at this time.
Even the rehearsals are incredible....
Been listening to the Steely Dan Y2K tour on youtube for the past month. The Dan with Michael Jacksons drummer is so soulful! Steely Dan with the Motown groove. Thanks Ricky, Walter and Cornelius!
I cant believe I m actually at a Steely Dan rehearsal...!
Thank you so much...!
Wow, really love hearing these rehearsals …. So cool to hear individual sections, marvelous musicians
Lovely stuff. It's great to see Walt and Don in the same frame performing. So many talented musicians playing together. Thanks for all the new Dan goodness.
Lovely to see Corny Bumpus here on saxophone, one of the triad of Doobies in The Dan (with Mike McDonald and Skunk Baxter). Corny worked with Don on a couple of projects including the Rock & Soul Review I believe (with McD also). Thanks so much for the upload and share.
Awesome, thank you for sharing. Cornelius was such a kind man. We loved him! Skunk is a dear friend and he was instrumental in McD migrating over to the Doobies.
This is extraordinary
Wanted to add...it's especially lovely seeing Walt do his thing. He was always my favourite Dan and he's much missed.
Cimcie, this is absolutely incredible to see and thank you so very much for posting these legendary behind the scenes videos. Donald and Walter will go down as two of the most important, respected, super talented musicians and songwriters musicians of all time. I’m a huge SD fan as well as a multi instrumentalist and singer in the chi area
Yes they are and will go down as the best ever in history
These videos are pure gold for SD fans. I had no idea that anything like this existed. I found an interview online in which you said your Dad never threw anything away. We all have Roger to thank for that, and you for sharing what he never threw away!
A massive thank you for sharing these videos! They are a gift to any Steely Dan fan. It’s a privilege to get this glimpse behind the scenes with all the humanity and genius at work 👌🏻
yesss. i love this kind of stuff, like rear window it's fun to peak in to see what was going on behind all of the stuff we love
I was on this tour with them as Ricky Lawson was a close friend.sat on that kit many times.what a band and what a tour!miss Ricky so much.god bless you Ricky ❤️
What does it mean that you were on the tour with them?
@@petefogel2133 this was the two against nature tour?I travelled with them.
@@djbullets5850 I understand that. I was on the entire tour plus europe. I just don't remember ricky having any friends on the tour as I was hanging out with him and tom barney a lot.
@@petefogel2133 yeh I don’t remember you either.pete who?are you a drummer?i luckily toured with Ricky many times..Lionel Richie,Micheal Jackson (both tours bad and dangerous)Phil Collins(2 tours)Whitney Houston,and steely Dan.Ricky spotted me playing drums in London at a Remo drum seminar when I was 10 in 1987.we became best friends from then on.
Cool
This footage is incredible on so many levels. Thank you!
Yo!!!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!! I’m a huge Steely Dan fan and even bigger RICKY LAWSON fan!! This is super dope!! I love seeing stuff like this… great footage!
You should get a medal for sharing this…
Aww, thank you. go go go go
What artistry, passion, power and beauty.
I will never stop saying thank you!!
It is really, really great to see this footage. Thank you so much for posting. ❤❤
Absolutely amazing. Thank you very much indeed!
Thanks, great footage if my favo band!
I had a college roommate back in 79, who must have had every Steely Dan tape and played them all the time.
hahaha. so do you love them or hate them after that?
@iamcimcie it took me a while, but I came to love them.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
@@jimplummer4879 same lol
🎥 Nice work 👍
I love these two guys. I love this band. Walter plays his stuff in practice just like he’s on stage because it’s all about now. His expressionless face belies the stuff that’s playing thru his head and fingers. The Maestros!!!
A truly great band works this hard to sound this good. Now we know what goes in to creating the perfect S.D. show --- hard work.
I think Roger captured that detail in his great video. A lot goes into making Steely Dan sound as good as they do. Glad we have this video journal so all of us can catch a glimpse of the inner workings we rarely get to see.
Fabulous! TNX for sharing.
1:35 beat 4:26 5:01 Shame 6:23 WofH 8:58 Dupree 17:22 Pretzel 19:18 Deacon 21:35 Glamour 25:02 Peg 27:28 Peg 27:48 Babylon 29:45 Kid 33:55 Home (performance)
My favorite band !!!!! From 1972
to present time 2025 !!!!!!
The two shows at Sony in NYC are amazing - both the "public dress rehearsal" and the regular show a day or two later (both of them are up on RUclips I think). Superb musicianship, priceless takes of so many great songs - and such a warm, soulful feel all through it!
I wouldn't call it public. It was by invitation only
@@petefogel2133 Okay, the point I wanted to include was that they were playing that one to a live audience, too (normally not the case with a rehearsal).
@louise_rose I was helping director earl sebastian. I was in the control room for the first night, in the audience the second. I don't remember any public public dress rehearsals before those two shows. Maybe on the day of. Or maybe my memory has just faded from twenty-three years ago. Though, I was at Sony and SIR almost every day that entire month. January 2000
@@petefogel2133 I was thinking of this performance, which has a more laid-.back feel and a partly different set list than the one that was issued on DVD (and was filmed just days later). Notice that the film is tagged "video rehearsal" and there's an audience crowd present, not made up of stage hands and the like, even if the show was not announced to the general public.
ruclips.net/video/mEdM1S1lo9w/видео.html
Also, please notice the intermission break (the link is timed to it) where they had to reload film on the cameras. They wouldn't have kept that in for the video of the main gig, a night or two later.
@louise_rose The master copy of those other songs that weren't performed. We're stolen out of a room at sony after the second night. That's why they didn't appear on the official release.
Superb! Thanks again Cimcie!
Rest in Peace Walter 🙏
That was great! It's like a bunch of people practicing in their garage or something. Your father really understood what he would like to remember in the future with his videos, and it wasn't the final product but the process of the thing.
Cimcie, you are awesome ! ♥
Bloody Marvellous!
Brilliant thank you... really appreciate this support for Roger as well.... I am a long time follower, fan and supporter of his amazing work.
Thank you so much for sharing these videos, I feel I've seen everything there is to see about the Dan, and then you come along and make my day. xx
So good. Nice to see things like the mic setup on the drums. Is that a SSL board or am I just old? Thanks again Cimcie for putting this together!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS! I love to see the layout of the band personell on the stage along with the lights and cameras. This is totally awesome 👍😎
😁💖🎶
Yay!! I am glad you all are enjoying it. I love the BTS stuff too.
This is the incarnation of the live band that I saw at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'm ashamed to say that I was initially disappointed that Bernard Purdie wasn't playing; this feeling lasted one downbeat. RIP Ricky Lawson..
Used to hear Ricky Lawson with Robben Ford - incredible drummer.
My favorite tour was summer 1996..East Coast swing.....my god those guys were tight and at the peak chops. Walter was spectacular on that 96 tour in particular. Memorable 4th row seat to experience the Dan.
Oh wow, ‘96 would have been fun! I was at a few shows back then
thanks for sharing
Wow, brilliant again Cimcie - Thanks soooo much
Thank You Cimcie ! This is great !
Nothing like seeing history in the works!
You’re the best, Cimcie! It’s like you’re the Steely Dan Santa Claus! 😊
hahahahha. I love Christmas.
Cimcie, I'm so glad I found your channel! I love Steely Dan and they're my favorites by far. So much talent and so glad it was captured on film! :)
Wow! Fab! Thanks, Cimcie 🙂💐
Wow!!! Thanks for posting 🔥
I really appreciate this
Mad props to Cornelius Bumpus! rip genius from Santa Cruz CA
He was the best.
11:50. That lovely in the slacks and white sweater sure does have a nice back side. And I'm absolutely in love with the redhead backup singer. ;-) (Oh yeah, the band is pretty decent, too.)
I would have paid full price to see this
A lot of work goes into making good music.....Steely Dan is flawless 🎸🥁🎷🎺🎹🎶
Amazing
Very cool, thank you so much!
Wow. I remember this tour- barely. Still have the Y2K subway token Steely Dan t-shirt.
This stuff is gold. Thanks so much, Cimcie!
Thanks again so much for sharing…..
I love love LOVE this !!
For some reason I always thought Donald’s voice had drastically changed by the time they came back in the 90’s, but that Deacon Blues clip at 19:17 sounds like it could have been rehearsal during the time they recorded it in ‘76
Nice to see Walter again….
This January 2000 taping background footage rules!
So cool!
Love this Cimcie! ❤
Peter Jackson should be given all of Roger's footage to do the same thing he did for The Beatles. Maybe call the documentary Reelin' In The Years. I have always rated Becker and Fagen on the same level as Lennon and McCartney.
What a treat!
Tom Barney bass and Ted Baker (rip) Keys.
This is awesome! Keep 'em coming! :D
Wonderful.
I’m in love with Vicki Cave.
I saw the Y2K tour in Hartford I think or NJ I got a cool polo I’ll wear in a video SD Y2K
Thank you
West of Hollywood - what a vehicle for Chris Potter to jump onto!
"I just wanna document the lunch" 🤣
See some people who are no longer with us, Ricky Lawson (William Riser III) on drums, Cornelius Bumpus on tenor and Walter, RIP.
Wasn’t Jon Herington in this band? Walter sounds great but just wonder.
Yes. Look closely, you’ll see him.
I saw a comment from a Tim Schmidt if it's the real one Timmy did rehearse with the Dan my friend has a photo
Ricky Lawson, what a consumate drummer
Where did the rehearsal take place ??
NY, NY.*
R.I.P. Ricky Lawson
I did not know Ted Baker passed away.It seems that may people leave the Dan one way or another .I have seen them live since 1972
Ricky Lawson on drums?
At 7:13 (in color): Phase 90 on the Rhodes. 😋
Yes yes
Signature sound!
If seized about the nostril by the post modern police and forced to disclose a meaning to all this Blair Witchery I would declare it to be a celebration of the joy that comes to persons of good musical will while moving from one delicious chord to another secure in their timbral and rhythmic underpinnings. That glowing interviewer knows he's in the midst of something special, and how about a kiss for the boom mic operator dude holding it aloft for all those long minutes? Or, wait. Is that the simple message, holding something aloft, despite everything? I'll salute that. Thanks.
16:16 set list as near as I can tell:
Green earrings
Janie runaway
Josie
Gaslighting Abbie
Do it again
Cousin Dupree
Babylon sisters
Black Friday
Deacon blues
Bad sneakers
West of Hollywood
Home at last
Kid Charlemagne
Fez
FM
Hey Nineteen
What a shame about me
Jack of speed
Pretzel logic