STEELY DAN - KID CHARLEMAGNE ( REACTION )
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Steely Dan is that group where when you first hear them you think "yeah, they sound kinda groovy", but upon REALLY listening, and really getting into their lyrics you realize they really are one of the greatest bands of the 20th century.
Right and a half you are! Steely Dan is the gift that keeps on giving. I was a music student when I really got into them and really wasn't giving the lyrics much of a thought. The music stands on its own, and when I got hold of some transcriptions... this stuff is CHALLENGING. It still is after more than 20 years. Coolest and most beautiful harmonies, and they are so smooth and groovy that it all sounds 'easy' (IT... IS... NOT!)
Getting into the lyrics, years after being obsessed about their musical and instrumental craft, was just a challenging and rewarding. Outstanding storytelling, quite messed up humour... and everything wrapped up tightly with some sick harmonies and grooves.
No wonder why Steely Dan is referred to as "your favourite's band favourite band".
@@mejsjalv I constantly hear them referred to when a band is interviewed and asked a question like "which band do you wish you could be more like"?
Bravo . Touche .the Dan .an aestetic
3cheers from Canada
@@mejsjalv Excellent observations and short description of the Steely Dan.
It’s a mortal sin to interrupt a Larry Carlton guitar solo while reacting to any Steely Dan song he plays on 🎸🎸🎸🎸
Silly.
@@zapazap No it is not
@@Quadrant14 Perhaps you can absolve us then?
@@zapazap Te absolvo, my friend. But in all seriousness, Carlton's guitar solo on this recording is considered by many to be the pinnacle of session work...ever.
Amen
This song was inspired by Owsley Stanley III, the first "underground" chemist to mass produce high-quality LSD in the 1960s in San Francisco. Walter Becker explained: "It was kind of an Owsleyesque figure that existed in our mind's eye. I think he was based on the idea of the outlaw-acid-chef of the '60s who had essentially outlived the social context of his specialty but of course he was still an outlaw."
@iconoclast I read somewhere that when he got busted he turned in the Grateful Dead. Which lead to the lyrics about being busted in New Orleans in their song Long Strange Trip. So he inspired some good music you could say.
@@George-gk5bu Just what I read.
“Haitian Divorce” Steely Dan and “Fool in the Rain” by Led Zeppelin
Two other characters, actual practical apprentices of 'The Owsley Method', were Tim Scully and Nicholas 'Nicky' Sand (aka The Buddha From Brooklyn). Starting around 1967 and especially from 1969, after Owsley got busted and went to jail, Tim and Nick became the most celebrated manufacturers of quality LSD, the new standard was their fabled and much coveted 'Orange Sunshine', a golden-orange pill containing 275 µgs of pure LSD. Nicky Sand is also one of the very first (perhaps The First) known manufacturers of pure DMT, Tim Leary was hip to his product in the late 1960s. And I also suspect Nick Sand might have been the supplier of the DMT that Donald Fagen admits to smoking at Bard College around the same time. So 'Kid Charlemagne' might be about Tim and Nick as well. But Owsley is far and away the original manufacturer and the chemist whose name entered pop culture, especially after he became the supplier of Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters and became the sound man for The Greatful Dead.
Telynn S you mean “Truckin”
You're exactly right. Their lyrics are just as complex as the music, and the guitar solos are the best. More please. 😊
More on the way! Thanks so much for watching Lara! 🙏🏾😊
You reaction guys are trip
But th an has always kicked ass
It was based on the story of the downfall of self-proclaimed “King of Acid” and Grateful Dead financial backer/soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley.
Made the best "kitchen clean" LSD and drove around in a day glo RV. Became a multi millionaire - then all the low rent friends were dead and he fell from grace
@@thedave5748 and got caught trying to leave town....cause he ran out of gas!!
Cool! I did not know that!! Very interesting
@@thedave5748 awesome info
Also, when Donald says "you are obsolete, look at all the white men on the street" it wasn't a racial thing, he was talking about the cocaine trade and the dealers or 'white men" for the color of the drug, who came to town and basically bowled over the acid trade. I think I read that on the internet so ...
Chuck Rainey on bass, Bernard Purdue on drums, Larry Carlton on guitar. Crazy great players.
Fagan was blessed with access to this hotbed of the best session musicians in the world, in LA. He used them to perfection. His arrangements are out of this world as are his lyrics- he always tells a story.
Hi buddy, Donald didn't do it alone, remember Walter@@remmymafia3889
Larry Carlton’s guitar solo on this cut is considered one of the best of all time.
That’s Larry Carlton on guitar, dude. Our heads are moving just the same way. I’m 60 and it’s great to watch you discover this kick ass song and band. Re-listen to that line “is there gas in the car?”, “Yes, there’s gas in the car?” I love the way he reaches and nails the pitch in that second “car”. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Augustus Owsley Stanley III. The song is based on him. He was an Acid head in the 1960’s California scene. Made the cleanest acid around. Everyone raved about it, so to speak. He hung out with and was supplier to the grateful dead. Got too famous, hounded by the law, split to Australia, died in a car crash. Donald Fagen said that they used him as the character. Glad you’re digging our old hippie hits from the 70’s!
"Black Cow", "Hey Nineteen" and "FM (no static at all) are all a must to hear. All have the sexy sax in it.
The legendary Larry Carlton on guitar...One of the greatest guitar solos in contemporary music!
A whole lot of hip-hop artists have sampled Steely Dan especially the Aja album
Others may yet tell you, so I'll quote some who have given an explanation to these lyrics.
Said by Surely Serious 11 months ago (edited)
One of my favorite songs of all time. The song is based on a San Francisco LSD chemist named Owsley Stanley. Fagen's unmistakable vocals, Carlton's solo, and Rainey's bass work....just an awesome tune. The founding members (Fagen and Becker) met at Bard College in New York.
Said by Russell Gil 10 months ago
The "white men on the street" are the coke dealers that make his product obsolete.
The line "is there gas in the car?" Refers to how Stanley got busted. He ran out of gas in his psychedelic painted motor home full of acid.
Kid Charlamagne was the sound engineer for the Greatful Dead and could be called the catalyst for the Summer of Love with his high quality product.
So there you have it...and yes, one of my very favorites by these guys.
Right on, brothuh! All Power to the People! What you said! Thanks for saving me a lot of writing...
Owsley is also the basis for the Dancing Bear logo.
Yeah, good old Bear!
Might help to look up who the original Charlemagne was. That would make it even deeper. Cool stuff. One of the best guitar solos by a true master.
@@tomneile4025 He was the first Holy Roman Emperor , 800 AD...
Dude pauses the most insane guitar solo of all time. Love that you're digging it bro.
I thought that was a sitar. Wait a sec'...never mind. I was thinking of "Do it Again".
Same here. When he paused I was like NO!!! You totally killed the vibe dude!!!
Larry Carlton!!!!!!!!
Rob Clem Not me I also like when someone talks through the whole song
Larry Carlton and I were very angry about that.
The fact that you even know the band Weather Report but also that they have a bunch in common just made me a subscriber lmao - I thought at this point we all forgot them somehow. "Birdland" from the Heavy Weather album is one of my favorite songs from childhood, tapes in the basement right now, and the song is blasting out of these speakers as I type.
Jaco is an absolute Monster.
Have you heard Manhattan Transfer sing Birdland? Lyrics by Jon Hendricks. ❤
I'm pretty sure that's on another tape in the same row here@@TheDivayenta
This duo hired the best of the best to record with. The bass player here is the great Chuck Rainey.
Very ture. Beside the main duo, they used the best studio musicians in the business on their albums.
Let's not forget Bernard Purdie on the drums. That Purdie Shuffle. Just saying...
If you're a Weather Report fan, you will most assuredly dig the title track from their album Aja featuring the great Wayne Shorter.
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Was thinking ..... 🤔 Same! ☺️🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny
"Any Major Dude Will Tell You" ~Steely Dan, Is Amazing! and many many more.
Steely Dan has been the soundtrack of my life and I love watching you react to greatness.
My favorite Steely Dan joint is 'My Old School'... Also if you like this, I think you will enjoy a band called 'Chicago'! My favs from them are '25 or 6 to 4', 'Saturday in the Park', and 'Does anybody really know what time it is?'. Keep jammin!
Heard a lot about Chicago! Can't wait to dive into their music and definitely adding your recommendations to the list! Thanks for watching!
What other bands do you like cuz those two are my favorites along with The Doors
My Old School is my favorite song, period. The Daddy G. in that song refers to G. Gordon Liddy who was an FBI agent that busted a party house ran by Timothy Leary.
I've been a Steely Dan fan for decades and love this track. On the other hand, I've never been in to hip-hop and couldn't name one Kanye West tune. So it's fun to be on the other side of the "Oh, this is where that sample came from" reaction, as "Oh, this little bit was sampled and was heard by millions as part of one of their favorite songs. I never knew that." If both Steely Dan fans and Kanye West fans can enjoy it, it's all cool.
Those Larry Carlton solos are ridiculously good!! Classic! Plus you can't beat the Bernard Purdy shuffle on the drums.
2 of the greatest guitar solos ever in the same song!
Off the same album, you have to do "Don't Take Me Alive" and "My Old School" off of their 1973 Countdown to Ecstacy album. The jazz/rock fusion is so technically precise as are the stories they tell. Productions values above anyone else in the business - time and time again. The Dan will live forever.
Recording engineer... Roger Nichols....
The guitar solo on Kid Charlemagne was done by L.A. studio ace Larry Carlton and was rated the best rock guitar solo ever by Rolling Stone magazine.
Steely Dan’s My Old School has some cracking guitar solos, even by Steely Dan standards.
I share your enthusiasm for this great song. How nice to be in a position where zillions of people are recommending what they feel is the best music!
Hey Jay, I discovered your channel and so far, I love it. I've been a huge Steely Dan for decades and I love seeing people's reactions when they first start listening to them and how the superb songwriting and phenomenal muscianship of the "hired guns" playing on their albums just sucks them in like some type of magic spell. The guitarist playing the solo, Larry Carlton, and bassist, Chuck Rainey, are two of the best musicians in the history of rock.
"Green Earrings" off the same album. FIRE.
Love it! I think it's my favorite. Sooo funky.
@@eileendobbs8574 Dat smoke buddy.
Mike Loomis , this whole album, every song is gold.
Kid Charlemangne was their drug dealer That's the great Larry Carlton on Guitar
Almost every Steely Dan song is gold, but this is my favorite. The Larry Carlton solo tops many lists of the greatest guitar solos in history. Thanks for the intelligent commentary - you got another sub.
"Is there gas in the cah? Yes, there's gas in the cah."
I think the people down the hall know who you ahh
Fav...
@@juliettespain7994 : This was in the time of gas rationing. OPEC was cutting supply short.
🤷🏿♀️ The 70s had everything. 🙄 Including gas rationing! 😏🐰 #ENRGYZRBunny 😂 #SundayMondayHappyDays
Stanley was busted when he ran out of gas.
Agreed. My Old School. Enough said.
Excellent reaction! You HAVE to do "Aja'!! That song will blow you away! Aja has Wayne Shorter on Sax and Steve Gadd on drums!
Playa,
That's the legendary Chuck Rainey on the bass!
I subscribed for his dreads alone.
"My Old School" by far is my favorite Steely Dan song. I just can'y get by those guitar licks.
Steely Dan created something amazing, with a musical genre all their own, with the infamous mu major chords, and lyrics about the sketchiest members of society, with tasty elegance, again and again and again...enjoy the ride my friend..
"Do It Again" should have some familiar sounding riffs too. Awesome!
BTW, Steely Dan doesn't have any bad songs, not a single one, but you might want to go back to their first album (Can't Buy a Thrill), and continue the true journey there, with "Dirty Work".
Going to definitely do so! I think i'm going to keep Steely Dan in my daily rotation at this point lol! Thanks for watching!
Yeah, great song. Their total work is amazing.
I think Show Biz Kids is the weaker song in their repertoire.
Given the level of so many of these 'reaction' posts, both musical, lyrical and intellectual, it is, dear Jay, a relative pleasure to listen and watch you react to what is nothing but PURE CLASS! Good man! Bless you..
They put "technicolor motorhome" in a song and it sounds incredible....most underrated band in History....
Underrated? Underrated??
That sweet guitar sound is the great Larry Carlton. Get to know him well. You said "that's a trip" after the song was done. In more ways than one. The song is about LSD.
Back when was music was music, we need to get back to it soon. Great reactions on all your reactions, your very versed in the musicianship and the technicality of the songs. Well done man, nice to see someone of your caliber out here. Peace!
Bro Steely Dan has so many great songs... Pick One
Ya know, you can play these guys all day on a Sunday and you'll feel fantastic on Monday morning! Balm for my soul.
You're right about their musical palette, the 2 guys Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were studio perfectionists that hired lots of great players to play on their albums. Listen to the quality of the recordings too, good separation, layers, jazz chords and notes. They have whole albums worth hearing, anything from "Aja", "Gaucho" or "The Royal Scam". Really every album from 1972 to 1980 is classic.
You like the lyrics, huh? Try Pretzel Logic off the SD album of the same name. It’s about time travel.
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 - March 12, 2011) was an American-Australian audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture. Under the professional name Bear, he was the sound engineer for the Grateful Dead, recording many of the band's live performances. Stanley also developed the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound, one of the largest mobile sound reinforcement systems ever constructed. Stanley also helped Robert Thomas design the band's trademark skull logo.[1]
Called the Acid King by the media,[2][3] Stanley was the first known private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD.[4][5][6] By his own account, between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produced at least 500 grams of LSD, amounting to a little more than five million doses.[7]
He died in a car accident in Australia (where he had taken citizenship in 1996) on March 12, 2011.[6][8][9]
From Wikipedia! ANY song by them is pure fire!
"Any Major dude" is another great one
Yep , I really like that tune fer sure
Don't Take Me Alive by Steely Dan is my favorite by them.
My brother's in law are musicians and and they love Steely Dan and had seen them every tour. Now one has passed so don't know if they'll continue. Hope so. Thank you I haven't heard for a couple of years. 💞✌
Charlemagne was a an actual king in Europe who was born in 748, and died in 814. He was noted for uniting many factions in Western and Central Europe, with the last faction being the Carolingian Empire, thus his title 'King Charlemagne'. Fagan is equating in this song, an individual from the 60's, Stanley Owsley, who was an established audio engineer in the SF Bay area, when the hippie/counter culture stuff came down in '67. He then mastered in his apartment, the making of a specific kind of acid, which he was noted for. He was considered for a few years, the 'King of Acid', and Fagan is referring to his rise with his chemistry laboratory making acid, and travelling to LA to push it there, before being busted.
Steely Dan is famous for their double meaning lyrics.
That’s why , I have always liked them more than the Eagles .
@@justinverdugo1839 I like them both. 2 different types of music, both great in their own way. You have country rock with the Eagles and jazz rock with Steely Dan.
The meanings here are pretty much singular.
I'm so glad you are diggin Steely Dan. Had all the albums and cranked them loud when others were looking at me strange playing their 3 cord ACDC. Jazz influence, great writing, great riffs....I could go on and on. 40 years later I am one happy dude you are introducing people to great timeless music like my dad and grandfather did for me. Rock on, be well and take care my friend. Cheers
Love the reaction and Steely, thank you.
Ive never heard a single Kanye West song, but it cracks me up on every single one of the Kid Charlemagne reaction videos when the light bulb turns on over the host's head about the apparent reference.
You paused one of the greatest guitar solos of the 20th century my guy! lol, no worries, glad you're digging this track! Hey, you mentioned you hear some "Herbie Hancock" and "Weather Report" in this tune. Have you listened to the track "Aja" from the album of the same name? That song has Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist of Weather Report, playing an absolutely transcendent sax solo on it, as well as two (2!) drum solos. Very different song than this one! More of a slow-build with an epic payoff.
Chuck Rainey played bass guitar on this song. He was also one of the bass guitarists on Marvin Gaye's 14th studio album; "I Want You", released in 1976.
It makes me happy that you dig the music I grew up with! I don't know why I get such a kick out of it, maybe it reminds me of my young years (70s) when my friends and I would hang out and listen to good music. Anyway, all their stuff is great. Dr Wu. Josie. Hey 19. It's all great ( and heavily sampled over the years). They used some really heavy cats on their sessions. Phil Woods, Wayne Shorter, Larry Carlton, Steve Gad, Don Grolnik to name just a few of the top of my head. Their lyrics were pretty dark. Addiction, weird criminal stuff like this one, badly dysfunctional relationships....
You can't go wrong with any song you pick. Steely Dan music is some of the best ever made. "FM" and "Show Biz Kids" are a couple of my favorites.
They got a little bit of everything. Fusioned to the max.
love this guy's reactions :)
Love Steely Dan. Theirs was the only music my fussy baby would instantly chill out to.
Steely Dan is one of the most sampled bands of all time, so many great hits and beautiful musicianship, have fun I would start listing all the great songs to listen to but there is too many to list, I’m sure no matter what song anybody put up here for you to listen to his great lol
My fav band, growing up with that band was awesome!!!!
Every musician I know love Steely Dan. They have the best musicians and if you go to concert it's full of artists. 💞✌
That's the great Larry Carlton laying down those sweet guitar licks.
Hey man, I just found your channel and it's great to see someone discovering Steely Dan. So many great songs to recommend. One of my favorites is Daddy Don't Live in that New York City No More. Such a great one, funky with some heavy lyrics, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone do a reaction to that one. Other great choices would be Dirty Work, Change of the Guard, the Boston Rag, FM, and just about anything off the Aja album.
Owsley Stanley is Kid Charlemagne. He was the acid king for the The Acid Tests in San Francisco. He is also forever memorialized as the Dancing Bear on Grateful Dead stuff. 😁
A jazz-rock fusion! Have followed them since they started. One of their old songs, "Pretzel Logic," (song) also on the LP "Pretzel Logic! I've had a channel here since 2015, and I just share, no uploads/downloads. Have many created playlists, but if you switch over from "Home" to "Playlists," you'll find lots of treasures. I'm close to 70, no kiddin' !! A grandma that loves Metallica, too!😉✌👍
Check out BLACK COW
BY SD🙂
Especially if you want to check out some sampled Steely Dan. You'll recognize it at note one.
@@michaelmiller6709 for sure.
Song is loosely based on Owsley Stanley. LSD alchemist for the acid tests, and creator of the Deads wall of sound. Renaissance man.
This is a great rabbit hole to dive into!
Interesting hearing you mention a Herbey Hancock similarity. Love Steely Dan's music.
Those chord changes & progression were almost “fusion jazz like.” Herbie was the first to come to mind comparison wise lol 😊
@@abovetheinfluence9361 Yes, this is generally considered Jazz Rock.
@@abovetheinfluence9361 seldom do people know who Herbie is lol. Especially younger generations.
@@abovetheinfluence9361 For another Herbie-like slice of jazz funk, try "Green Earrings" from the same album. Then "The Fez".
@@xebio6 YES!! Love both those songs. Aja gets most of the kudos for being such a perfectly engineered album but The Royal Scam is my favorite SD album.
Steely Dan/Fagen/Becker, add top notch studio musicians who made outstanding choices, will send a chill right through ya. Like you mentioned... those lyrics ! Hello from Yuma,Arizona.
first time I heard Steely Dan was the song "Show Biz Kids"
Been hooked ever since
spot on with the Weather Report comparison!
“Don’t take me alive “ awesome
As everyone has so awesomely suggested... have to go down to funky town with "Black Cow." "Hey Nineteen" is also fabulous, and "Reeling in the Years" has fantastic guitar riffs. And shout out to those fellow Chicago suggestors -- lots of funk and big band sounds packaged into some awesomeness.
My two favorite Home at last, and The caves of Altamira.
Owsley was a unique character.On one hand he was a brilliant chemist and invented and constructed the Wall of Sound Greatfull Dead sound system that remains the state of the art for arena shows.He maintained that meat and white flour are the only good foods.That vegatables are bad and scratch your intestines.He died in 2013 in a car wreck 63 I think so will never know really how good his diet was for his body.
Steely Dan’s the best, I love them and my kids grew up on them too. ❤️
Don't Take Me Alive from the same album!
The bass in this song is just ridiculous. Chuck Rainey is a god.
OK, confession time. Those pics of the swirling colors-that's exactly what I saw the first time I did LSD. Just burst of color coming and going in my head. May I say it was amazing.
This song is "loosely" about Owsley "Bear" Stanley. I will leave you to your experience with that rabbit hole.
I couldn't wait till you heard that Larry Carlton guitar solo. It's documented as one of the best rock guitar solos ever.
You made an observation that SD uses a wide variety of instruments. True, and when you start taking a deeper dive into their catalog, including the Aja and Gaucho album, you'll hear some of the tastiest horn arrangements in all of popular music. You mentioned Weather Report, so check out the title cut of Aja, where Whether Report's own Wayne Shorter delivers a monster tenor sax solo.
If you like the guitar work, "Don't Take Me Alive" is a must.
I watched another "reaction" to this same song. Apparently, the reviewer's ears were not connected to a brain. Larry Carlton's solo, one of the finest guitar solos in pop/rock history, went unnoticed by the reviewer - as if it were an interruption to the important part of the song. Good to see you appreciate it in real time!
Rule # one my good man, neva neva pause during a Larry Carlton solo. Ahaa, lets just also say, pretty much any other alumni, Skunk, Dias, Derringer etc. 👍Kid C I believe is merely a moniker f hour the typical Aldous Huxley'an character whom mixed up 'kitchen clean' LSD or the like. If you get enough into the Dan, I suggest Michael Sweet's great book(a must staple) for great detailed insight into their music and lyrics. Believe there's also one out breaks lyrics down a bit. When I look up any individual song under lyric meaning brings up lots as well. They were notorious for not telling much to leave the listeners to discern for thematically🤔 for themselves. I love all the widely various inferences I see. Word up👍😉
Mentioning Kanye West in relation to a Steely Dan song is similar to mentioning Hitler in relation to a da Vinci painting.
This is the story of Owsley Stanley The King of the best acid of the 60s. It also has 2 of the greatest guitar solos by the master Larry Carlton.
They laid subversive lyrics about the darker sides of life over catchy jazz/pop melodies that were flawless. It was almost an Andy Kaufmanesque act. The box set booklet has a great bit about Donnie and Marie Osmond doing a duet of My Old School, oblivious to the undertones of the song. What "knowledge" passed between them over the weekend described in the song.
You're going down a great rabbit hole. Check out Babylon sisters or my favorite from The Royal Scam album Green Earrings. Super funky.
the dan infused an unmistakable jazz sound into their rock songs that really set them apart from any other group. not everyone got them and some people blew them off. i grew up in that era- i'm 67 now and a bass player and just love those guys nobody has had that sound. another killer song off of this album is 'don't take me alive.here's a link for you. don't miss this one:ruclips.net/video/3gV1sxB8TxI/видео.html
The Dan is all about excellence, both musically as in lyrics. The secret is in the mastery. Check-out the making of Aja docu.
One of the many, many session artist Fagen and Becker invited explained it like this. "We did so many takes of a track that we mastered it completely and then where able to let the perfection go..."
For me, besides the brilliant guitar work of Danny Diaz and Larry Carlton, the pursuit of Becker and Fagen for the ultimate bassists for each track and especially their maniacally fitting the right drummer to each song is the fundament of their greatness. Combined with some of the best lyrics ever written, it makes the Dan so ultimately exceptional. I had the privilige to be in the audience at some concerts. Unforgettable moments. R.I.P Walter.
Thanks for doing these. Would love to see reviews of Black Cow from Aja and/or Gaucho and Third World Man (&rom Gaucho)
This tune is so funky!!