My mother played Steely Dan throughout my whole childhood. I am turning fifty this year and still listening. They are classic and timeless and I am proud to be a diehard fan.
I love "Glamour Profession" so much, that I get goose bumps every time I listen to it. I just can't get over how beautiful it is. A Masterpiece if you ask me. Thank you Steely Dan, for filling my ears with pure quality music!
Great music is timeless. The scathing lyrics , Fagen's voice & the incredible music arrangement. This song is a masterpiece. Top 10 Steely Dan alltime ! 🏖
40 years after recording this song , it is still as addictive to listen to as the "drugs" they were singing about!... EXCEPT there is no comedown or "Tolls to pay" when listening to Steely Dan songs..... Just musical Bliss............ GENIUS!
I grew up with my folks playing Steely Dan & Joni. Holiday car journeys steely dan, weekends at home steely dan, ingrained into my little head like nursery rhymes. Then, I got older, Donald Fagon. Thanks M&D. ❤❤❤
Yes, the disco beat which at that moment seemed to so totally dominate the industry that there wasn't any place for any other more complex rhythmic work...I was concerned when it seemed that even Steely Dan had caved to disco, but the last laugh was on them. They managed to employ the 4/4 engine but at the same time made so much more of it than anyone else had thought possible...And here we are 50 years later with a timeless classic..."Glamour Profession" !!!
Yep, very subtle and an expansion of the disco formula when it must have seemed everything had been said on the genre. The lyrics are very cool too - without moralizing, they still suggest the dangers and ultimate downfall of these smooth dealers. Notice the use of images of shadows and darkness here and there - the lyrics begin with a timestamp, 6:05, the end of a sunny afternoon, the great basket player is standing in the shadows after the game - the next verse picks up the metaphor and moves into the evening, again someone "watching from the shadows". Then in the final verse, a major coke deal is closed after midnight at a night-open Chinese restaurant. The journey goes from late afternoon to midnight and beyond , suggesting a deeper night lurking in the background.
I’m 72 and have seen SD live right before we lost Walter Becker. They’re my favorite band for soothing my soul when I have panic attacks. They’re better than anything else to calm my mind in this chaotic world we live in,October 19-2023. On the edge of WWIIl and so much more…They’re just the best ,I can’t say anymore than that.
I enjoyed their concert in Brisbane Australia in 2007, I had waited 30 years to see them live in concert, oh what a nite , blending rock jazz and funk & into their vast amount of songs with a full ten piece band it was the ultimate dan experience for me & my companion.✌️
Was in high school when this song came out and I was obsessed with it a world away from "Hollywood". Somehow ended up in the business. Ny first gig was meeting the dude who supplied everyone in various locales. Literally, the song became a reality for me. Unreal. And I still love it!
Such a great recording. Keyboards have that eeriness. Steve Kahn’s guitar work both rhythm and lead unerring. Horn chart awesome. Donald’s best work on vocal. Gadd and Anthony Jackson lay a sumptuous beat. Beautiful work.
catholicdad Steve Kahn played as to Steely Dan’s go to guitarist on Gaucho. Especially Glamour Profession and My Rival, the latter of which Donald told him to sound like Howling Wolf in his solo. Steve Kahn’s Voicing sounded totally different to Larry although both are primarily Jazz exponents. Larry Carlton did solo on the last track Third World Man . Significantly though the bulk of Third World Man was laid down a lot earlier originally ear marked for Aja. It made the cut because of The Second Arrangement fiasco. Having said that Larry’s solo work on this tune was telling in it’s raw emotion . Fantastic stuff.
@@dmljones2550 Agreed. You know, it's funny. At any given point in my adult life, my top 10 tunes are all over the place, but now, 40 years later, the title track Gaucho was ALWAYS in my top 10. I'd have to say Gaucho, Aja, & The Nightfly (along with some Tom Scott efforts) always my favorite albums. Lol, in the 80s, I honestly thought fusion jazz was gonna dominate music for the rest of my life. How wrong I was!
catholicdad Those albums you mentioned are priceless and have stood the test of time.Jazz Rock Fusion was tried by Miles( Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson) and Weather Report but this music while inspirational is repetitive in nature and lacks melody. And the bloody rappers with their Up Town Baby- Black Cow and Champion in Your Eyes - Kid Charlemagne is sacrilegious.
I think so too, so much understated, so many flamethrowers neeeed to pay attention to the loving feel this evokes, paradigm shift opening realms of virtuous thoughts of impassioned frivolities know lives love
Ive,always loved L.A. wish I had grown up there makes me want to be their ,awesome group and song .Nostalgica .Thank you. Los,Lakers # 24 Mamba,out rest in peace .
Yep! I've loved this band ever since I was twelve, when my brother introduced me to their music. Consummate craftsmen both as songwriters and arrangers, and with such a seemingly effortless funky vibe. :)
unbelievable ! for me it was my first Steely Dan, in audio tape , 40 years ago, a friend who was learning the guitar said to me: listen to that !! and since then I am not tired, " inoxyble " , what style it crosses all eras
@@michellelaugie5345 There is you tube film that shows people’s reaction to listening to Glamour Profession for the first time.Its really a hoot.There is a similar film that does the same for Darkside of the moon.That one is hosted by a black man Michael
I do too! Glass of wine and 1 toke at age 70. I saw them like 6 years ago at Tangelwood in Lenox Mass. where I been seeing concerts since the 70's. I went to the tree on the lawn where we all used to go, and there, 40 some years later were some old friends there from high school.
wow goosebumps everytime i hear this song ,and i thought hoops mcan was a fictional character,steely dan the best ive been listning since 1975 countdomn to ecstasy album a long time ago still impressive now in 2023 so sad the passing of walter becker im sure he is still playing in heaven
A good narrative about several young drug dealers, making a living in L.A. Two great solos. My favorite song because of the beat and connection to the narrative.
There will never be another like Walter and Donald!! You both took me soo many places with ganga that you made my life that much better and I will pass that on to my children!!
My all time favorite, by chance a friend gave me an L.P. can't buy a thrill .Hooked since. I Live in Healthy beautiful Spain, & have a Sony 100w per channel Amp plus 2 10 inch tannoys . Cleans the spiders webs . Love all music , classical , Sting .The Carmen suite by Bizet ,all done without synthesised insts , Brain power , the Russian & Polish youth orchestras show how talented our young are .Keep it going all !
The Secret: R&B musicians in the 70s & 80s knew to bring in heavy jazz musicians to really expand the premise of their sound. Jazz Is The Father & Mother of All Music.
Tremendous music with tremendous lyrics. So many drug dealers got off on dealing drugs just so they could hang around celebrities in the 70's/early 80's. It was their backstage pass to be within that inner circle. BTW - has anyone tried Szechuan Dumplings?
Hats off to Thomas Eliason for making this possible. There was a lot of hard work that went into this and was noticed. Thank you.
Not sure how I missed your comment, but you are very kind. Thank *you*
I second that comment , thank-you Thomas !!
I grew up playing/covering steely Dan tunes and I just turned 67
Donald Fagen is a genius. His voice and style is unmatched!
My mother played Steely Dan throughout my whole childhood. I am turning fifty this year and still listening. They are classic and timeless and I am proud to be a diehard fan.
Beautiful man
My favourite track of all time of any band. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have no words to describe the brilliance of this band.
I love "Glamour Profession" so much, that I get goose bumps every time I listen to it. I just can't get over how beautiful it is. A Masterpiece if you ask me. Thank you Steely Dan, for filling my ears with pure quality music!
I could not possibly agree more.
shoulderlift i have to say, this is a unique piece, very different of the others in the whole album
It really is, I think i love it more today than i ever have, it is superb.
The whole thing is an acoustic masterpiece, so ahead of anyone else in the time. Still sounds fresh today almost 40 years later.
Great music is timeless.
The scathing lyrics , Fagen's voice & the incredible music arrangement.
This song is a masterpiece.
Top 10 Steely Dan alltime ! 🏖
40 years after recording this song , it is still as addictive to listen to as the "drugs" they were singing about!... EXCEPT there is no comedown or "Tolls to pay" when listening to Steely Dan songs..... Just musical Bliss............ GENIUS!
Best drugs are free.
Absolutely love this song; one of my favorite Steely Dan tunes. RIP Walter Becker, Cornelius Bumpus and Rickey Lawson.
. . . and the Bumpus hounds.
I was listening to these guys when I was eighteen years old in Germany. I'm now 70 yrs. Old and they are still the "BOMB"
Hands down one of the best American Bands ever.
I grew up with my folks playing Steely Dan & Joni. Holiday car journeys steely dan, weekends at home steely dan, ingrained into my little head like nursery rhymes. Then, I got older, Donald Fagon. Thanks M&D. ❤❤❤
This song is pure genius as so many of their songs were! Years go by and every time I hear it again it makes me smile.
This song is astonishing, the production, the chord progression, it must rate as being one of the perfect songs.
I don't read music, BUT I love it ! and I feel it !!
They have to be the best band ever , I was told , as a female I wouldn’t like their music , I wouldn’t ‘get it’ ... well I love it
It is a perfect song. Amazing accuracy in music.👍👏
This song is why I sing. ❤
Harmonic perfection...now legal,fun...under the sun...🌎🎶🔥😎💯
Disco beat melded with west coast jazz. Brilliant mix.
You got that right Bud !
Yes, the disco beat which at that moment seemed to so totally dominate the industry that there wasn't any place for any other more complex rhythmic work...I was concerned when it seemed that even Steely Dan had caved to disco, but the last laugh was on them. They managed to employ the 4/4 engine but at the same time made so much more of it than anyone else had thought possible...And here we are 50 years later with a timeless classic..."Glamour Profession" !!!
@@photo161 well...40 years later. Dont date us too much.
Yep, very subtle and an expansion of the disco formula when it must have seemed everything had been said on the genre. The lyrics are very cool too - without moralizing, they still suggest the dangers and ultimate downfall of these smooth dealers.
Notice the use of images of shadows and darkness here and there - the lyrics begin with a timestamp, 6:05, the end of a sunny afternoon, the great basket player is standing in the shadows after the game - the next verse picks up the metaphor and moves into the evening, again someone "watching from the shadows". Then in the final verse, a major coke deal is closed after midnight at a night-open Chinese restaurant. The journey goes from late afternoon to midnight and beyond , suggesting a deeper night lurking in the background.
Almost 5 decades of Steely Dan!..... Still sounding as good as when I first heard them in the seventies, but for me.... EVEN BETTER NOW!.... RESPECT
That’s right!
💯
I was lucky enough to see the Steely Dan in 2007 in Tower in PA.
Rip 💔 Mr Walter Becker
I’m 72 and have seen SD live right before we lost Walter Becker. They’re my favorite band for soothing my soul when I have panic attacks. They’re better than anything else to calm my mind in this chaotic world we live in,October 19-2023. On the edge of WWIIl and so much more…They’re just the best ,I can’t say anymore than that.
I enjoyed their concert in Brisbane Australia in 2007, I had waited 30 years to see them live in concert, oh what a nite , blending rock jazz and funk & into their vast amount of songs with a full ten piece band it was the ultimate dan experience for me & my companion.✌️
This is obviously the studio recording of what I consider the best Fagen and Becker composition.
I’ve listened to a TON of music over the last 35 years on this earth, and this will always be one of my favorites. Pure excellence! 🥲🫡
Nobody makes music like this now...just pure class!
ANDY BROWN .....THOMAS ELIASON DOES......
1 of my favorite Steely Dan songs. I just discovered it a week ago and fell in love with it. Wow!
Oh how cool to just discover it. Good on you!
Went to Mr. Chows in Beverly Hills because of this song - AMAZING!
That is a real place lol that's so cool!!
Did you see jive Miguel?
Outstanding music .. SD will never be old! Just brilliant musicianship!
There is no other band like steely Dan & never will be like them one of a kind i love ❤ Donald fagan for ever my love
My fave track from Gaucho, so evocative of a music era distant in time and space - clever, insightful old and new world jazz blues infusion.
Was in high school when this song came out and I was obsessed with it a world away from "Hollywood". Somehow ended up in the business. Ny first gig was meeting the dude who supplied everyone in various locales. Literally, the song became a reality for me. Unreal. And I still love it!
Los Angeles! Hollywood! Lived there for 23 years. This song covers it.
The whole album is sensational these guys are great musicians for sure! I've, love this album!
Such a great recording. Keyboards have that eeriness. Steve Kahn’s guitar work both rhythm and lead unerring. Horn chart awesome. Donald’s best work on vocal. Gadd and Anthony Jackson lay a sumptuous beat. Beautiful work.
Anthony Jackson's work here is astounding. One of my top all time favorite bass lines!
Sounds like Larry Carlton. I'm assuming you're working off a personnel list though.
catholicdad Steve Kahn played as to Steely Dan’s go to guitarist on Gaucho. Especially Glamour Profession and My Rival, the latter of which Donald told him to sound like Howling Wolf in his solo. Steve Kahn’s Voicing sounded totally different to Larry although both are primarily Jazz exponents. Larry Carlton did solo on the last track Third World Man . Significantly though the bulk of Third World Man was laid down a lot earlier originally ear marked for Aja. It made the cut because of The Second Arrangement fiasco. Having said that Larry’s solo work on this tune was telling in it’s raw emotion . Fantastic stuff.
@@dmljones2550 Agreed. You know, it's funny. At any given point in my adult life, my top 10 tunes are all over the place, but now, 40 years later, the title track Gaucho was ALWAYS in my top 10.
I'd have to say Gaucho, Aja, & The Nightfly (along with some Tom Scott efforts) always my favorite albums.
Lol, in the 80s, I honestly thought fusion jazz was gonna dominate music for the rest of my life. How wrong I was!
catholicdad Those albums you mentioned are priceless and have stood the test of time.Jazz Rock Fusion was tried by Miles( Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson) and Weather Report but this music while inspirational is repetitive in nature and lacks melody. And the bloody rappers with their Up Town Baby- Black Cow and Champion in Your Eyes - Kid Charlemagne is sacrilegious.
I just love the way the bass line wanders around - so chilled and spot on - thanks for sharing :-)
A classic SD song that you know from when the horns start playing!
She’s so beautiful
One of the greatest guitar solos on this song !!!
I'm in love with the rhythm riff Walter plays throughout. It's so subtle but the song would be very dry without it.
I think so too, so much understated, so many flamethrowers neeeed to pay attention to the loving feel this evokes, paradigm shift opening realms of virtuous thoughts of impassioned frivolities know lives love
Rip , Cornelius , Ricky and Walter
Amen
He rolls around at the keyboard like Ray Charles….. and the lyrics are fire.
I have come to believe they are the best band in the world:)
I can hear Glamour Profession while cooking, cleaning, and entertaining all day long!! Love it!
Sick. Arrangements. On this song. Musical. Genius. 🙉
THE best band ever. Never mediocre. Always killin' it!
He looked like a mix between Ray Charles and Paolo Conte. Incredible song with glorious production by the way.
I had to look up "Paolo Conte". But then again, having to look up things is familiar territory for all Steely Dan fans. ;)
This song is a gift of love to your mind, heart and ears.
Piano solo gives me goosebumps all over. And how hip is Steve Gsdd, my favourite drummer of sll time.
Oh man ! those chords.....Pure genius.
“Local boys will spend a quarter, just to shine the silver bowl.” Americas drug problem in one line.
I'm a Hardcore Metalhead. But I still need my SteelyD Fix !!! awesome
時代を全く感じさせない、常にカッコいい曲！
This song is sleek and slick, like Hollywood itself. I love the Dan and the California sound.
Ive,always loved L.A. wish I had grown up there makes me want to be their ,awesome group and song .Nostalgica .Thank you. Los,Lakers # 24 Mamba,out rest in peace .
Listing to "Glamour Profession" right now! You Betcha! the whole Ensamble!
Great Album! Great dancing music, and The volcals, you goO, Steely Dan!
Yep! I've loved this band ever since I was twelve, when my brother introduced me to their music. Consummate craftsmen both as songwriters and arrangers, and with such a seemingly effortless funky vibe. :)
Fantastic dancing music!
the gaucho album is the most played record of the 900 that I have.
Aja is mine, hands down
@@artdrtr2 yes !! I discover 10 y. after , Great too :)
unbelievable ! for me it was my first Steely Dan, in audio tape , 40 years ago, a friend who was learning the guitar said to me: listen to that !! and since then I am not tired, " inoxyble " ,
what style it crosses all eras
.. contemporary music..
Grandes músicos pasaron por steely dan
Mi favorito Wayne krantz,Denny días,Jeff porcaro,Larry cartlon
It has a certain mystique and march to it. Lovely.
Colombian Marching Powder.
can't get this song out of my head! ♥
Me too.
There was only two good tracks on Graucho and this was one of them, the other was.... Hey Nineteen
Hello Beautiful.
@@neilpiper9889 ......Only TWO good tracks on this Album ?????.....NEIL YOU NEED TO BE DRUG TESTED.
Genius
A good Era and good music , great band .Steelys Symphonica.
Best Dan song of all time.
The best song of steely dan (i love the album aja but this is a masterpice) Really this is the best
Oo and thanks Tom from bringing this so we can see it live I love your videos!!
it swoops and twirls, billows and leaps, all complex precision. Absolutely beautiful....
I listen to Glamour Profession everyday.Sometimes more.Illegal fun under the Sun, boyz.
So do I... Bloody brilliant!!!
Yep. Time Out Of Mind of the highest order (-;
@@michellelaugie5345 There is you tube film that shows people’s reaction to listening to Glamour Profession for the first time.Its really a hoot.There is a similar film that does the same for Darkside of the moon.That one is hosted by a black man
Michael
@@michaelbander8203 Don't start me off again Michael. I've had an entire week of not listening to this song - it won't last much longer mind.
I do too! Glass of wine and 1 toke at age 70. I saw them like 6 years ago at Tangelwood in Lenox Mass. where I been seeing concerts since the 70's. I went to the tree on the lawn where we all used to go, and there, 40 some years later were some old friends there from high school.
wow goosebumps everytime i hear this song ,and i thought hoops mcan was a fictional character,steely dan the best ive been listning since 1975 countdomn to ecstasy album a long time ago still impressive now in 2023 so sad the passing of walter becker im sure he is still playing in heaven
Steely Dan e banda monstros da música. 2019
A kind of music that never got a scratch , after all those years ....My American musical heroes !
Absolutamente MARAVILLOSO ,ESTA MUSICA ESCUCHABA MI MADRE EN EL 80 Y YO BAILABA LENTAMENTE CON 10 AÑOS
The point shaving hoops star, drugs and the Mob... Who would think of such putting such a story to music...
My favorite SD song for sure.
The music it's so perfect. Working better than a Swiss watch.
so right you are !
Even my Rolex is jealous
@@jazz4asahel 😂😂😂
A good narrative about several young drug dealers, making a living in L.A. Two great solos. My favorite song because of the beat and connection to the narrative.
Yes, making a living while reveling in their delusions of grandeur...
@@photo161 Illegal-fun-under-the-sun!!!!
Everyone knows a Jive Miguel
Lovely run Steve Khan !!!
What craftsmanship, so smooth.
Brilliant.
When Donald sings "Mr. Chow". Gotta love it!
Love love love this song.
I do too.
So superb,Living Hard will take it's toll!!
I think future generations will look at this piece like we look at arrangements by Beethoven, Mozart and Bernstein.
The best .. feel ..of something I don’t try to understand. The guitar tone..
.. what, my 276th listen now
-whappocosta
Steely Dan FENÔMENAL!!! ❤️
Loved SD from the start ...they are a part of my life from age 16
the best of the best!!!!!!!!Everybody did a great Master!!!!!!
Glamour only glamour
Congratulations Donald and the great voice of Carolyne!!!!!
the dan is in a league of it's own ..
amazinley talented, best of their era by far.
Just awesome 👌 👏 👍
First heard Dan Steel summer 72 best band ever ❤
This is the epitome of cool, would've loved to see them live. I bought Gaucho when it was first released and Glamour Profession got me.
They are touring right now, saw my first SD show ever on Tuesday.
Brilliant and beautiful.
I love this song. I am listening to it now.
Donald Fagen is pure Genius
LOVE THE DAN! THanks Thomas FOR THIS GEM!
Most welcome !
Absolute genius !!!!
The audio here is A-MAZING thank you sir
In truth, I did play around a bit with editing the sound. Not a lot, but just enough to give it a little pop.
steely dan , the best of the best
There will never be another like Walter and Donald!! You both took me soo many places with ganga that you made my life that much better and I will pass that on to my children!!
My all time favorite, by chance a friend gave me an L.P. can't buy a thrill .Hooked since. I Live in Healthy beautiful Spain, & have a Sony 100w per channel Amp plus 2 10 inch tannoys . Cleans the spiders webs . Love all music , classical , Sting .The Carmen suite by Bizet ,all done without synthesised insts , Brain power , the Russian & Polish youth orchestras show how talented our young are .Keep it going all !
The Secret: R&B musicians in the 70s & 80s knew to bring in heavy jazz musicians to really expand the premise of their sound. Jazz Is The Father & Mother of All Music.
Masters of the game Donald and Walter 2 of the best ever.
My favourite Steely Dan song the chords are so beautiful i'm going to play them on my guitar :-)
Where would you place Steely Dan on the list of greatest bands ever?
WOW, WOW, WOW, fantastic!
Like riding a wave 🌊 SMOKIN' !!!!!!!
Wish I had a "Glamour Profession" Until then, I got this on loop!
Love STEELY DAN, ❤️
Wonderful!!!
Tremendous music with tremendous lyrics. So many drug dealers got off on dealing drugs just so they could hang around celebrities in the 70's/early 80's. It was their backstage pass to be within that inner circle. BTW - has anyone tried Szechuan Dumplings?
Yes, and at Mr. Chow's no less...
@@throe68 Do you know hollywood's middle name though?
@@Deliquescentinsight ......Holly"weird" WoodHas to be it's Middle Name...
Nice synch job. Love this song.
Yeah this album summed up in one word... Hip.