"Is there gas in the car?" "Yes, there's gas in the caaaar." LOL I believe this song is about Owsley Stanley, the famous LSD chemist and geniusnGrateful Dead sound engineer.
The story is pretty vague here so I can add a little clarity - it’s about Owsley Stanley, the famous LSD chemist from the heydays of San Francisco’s psychedelic 60’s. The dude was a flamboyant character. I heard a first hand story about the time he parachuted to an outdoor concert stage, stuck the landing, broke out a satchel full of acid hits,and proceeded to fling them to the stunned audience. But in the end he didn’t “ get along”quite good enough - the Feds caught up with him and he did a couple of years in prison, then moved to Australia.
@@monatodd3501 Yeah, it must have been cool to be in that generation. I was just a kid in the late 60’s when big changes were happening. There’s a movie called “ Across The Universe” that really captured the spirit of that era nicely.
Yes Yes Yes!!!!! My favorite group! “Take those test tubes and the scales; get it all outta here” “Is there Gas In the Car?”, “Yes, there’s Gas in the Car” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Can you guess what he’s talking about? 🔥
I've heard a lot of Steely Dan songs, but this is one that got by me; it's a trip. I need a good musical journey just now, gonna go find some other SD songs I missed. Anyone watching can tell you've an appreciative ear for this 👌
Listen to the whole Royal Scam album Tris. It's not always my favourite of their LPs (but it often is); there are some great songs on it. Echo what you say about appreciative ear. It's why I watch reaction videos. It's fantastic to see someone get bowled over by something that bowled me over 45 years ago.
When they went in to make the song they called in a handful of studio guitar players to try them out for the solo... and Larry Carlton came in and they loved his style. His appearance on this song helped shape his future for sure.
Steely Dan, my all time favorite band. FYI.. Fagen and Becker wrote this song about Owsley Stanley, the Grateful Dead's chemist. He was Kid Charlemagne.
By this point Steely Dan was just Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and a hoard of excellent session musicians. Oh this song plus several others on this album, they had Bernard Purdie on drums, Chuck Rainey on bass, and Larry Carlton on that tasty guitar solo. You're gonna love delving into more Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne was one of their very best, but virtually every song they wrote was fabulous, full of grooves and jazzy keychanges and terrific solos just like this one.
"the royal scam", "aja", "goucho" and Fagen's solo effort "the nightfly" are my desert-island records. Once you heard these records, you can't live without them. Steely Dan are in a league of their own.
I have been watching all the reactors react to the Kanye line, It is funny that some miss the connection, but you can see via their body language that subconsciously they recognize the line.
"All those day-glo freaks that used to paint their face, They've joined the human race. Some things will never change" As talented of musicians as Becker and Fagen are, I think it's their lyrics that really get me.
One of my all-time favorite Steely Dan songs! Their music is so intelligent yet soulful, incorporating the best musicians of the time! I must admit, I miss the brilliance that came from live studio recording, in the seventies!
Yep, he was also the genius sound engineer behind The Grateful Dead’s revolutionary sound system, the Wall of Sound, which is also responsible for “noise canceling” technology! Owsley Stanley aka “Bear”.
@@djimaging2 that’s a different Wall of Sound. I was talking about the one the Dead toured with. Absolutely insane! I’d give anything to have heard it in person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)
@@ericgerber9751 Yeah man, it was quite an impressive sound system. It was my first GD show in summer 74’. But what I remember the most was the good vibes of the crowd.
Great choice of Steely Dan songs to react to, definitely one of my favorites. If you get a chance to see them in concert jump on it. Steely Dan is phenomenal when they perform live, and we don't know how much longer we have before that's no longer an option.
For the future, Steely Dan "Hey Nineteen" "Do It Again" "Reeling In The Years" "Peg" "Dirty Work" "Aja" "Deacon Blues" "Black Cow" "My Old School" "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" "Black Friday" "Josie." Never realize how many songs you love until you start looking them up. There's more, but I'll leave it here.
Chuck Rainey is the bass player, and worked for Quincy Jones, and did a lot of sit com work. Bass line in the Jeffersons, Fat Albert, and Sanford and Son, he was also Aretha’s bass player in the early years along with this drummer Bernard Pretty Purdue. Best rhythm section anywhere
So 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 you liked this! Steely Dan is just the 𝘉𝘌𝘚𝘛. (Michael McDonald, from the Doobie Brothers - another band you 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 check out, if you haven't already - sings back-up on the last chorus.) And your face when you recognized "Kanye's song" was hilarious. ❁
Ok......this a song about Owsley Stanley. He made all the LSD for the acid tests on the west coast back in the 60s. He also was a sound engineer and designer. He was the Grateful Dead sound man/designer who created the “Wall of Sound”. He also created the skull and lightning bolt design. It’s what they used to identify their equipment at festivals. He also supported them with $$$ back in the day when they were starting out.
That was some sick drumming by Bernard"Pretty"Purdie.Chuck Rainey on bass and Larry Carlton on lead guitar made this one of the best songs ever recorded.🎶🎸🔥🌴
The rhythm section on this track is as good as it gets. Bernard Purdie on drums and Chuck Rainey on bass... If you like that groove, check out a guest shot they did on the Aretha Franklin song "Rock Steady". And, if you want your mind blown... remember that "Rock Steady" was just them goofing around in the studio. The producer and engineer were late to a session so Aretha wrote this song to give Bernard and Chuck something to do. They put down the basic tracks themselves on the spot and then the producer added the finishing touches later.
Great review, steely Dan and Donald Fagen with their 40 years/12 studio albums combined, hands-down the most original, Creative force in Pop music history!
I didn't write this. David Ryder gave this nice explanation of this song: "Check out the wikipedia article about Owsley Stanley. He was not the creator of LSD, but he certainly was "the best in town" and made literally millions of doses in his East Bay underground lab and "turned it on the world", while moonlighting as the Grateful Dead's first sound engineer. "Those San Francisco nights" would be "The Matrix", "Avalon Ballroom" and those other tiny acid-drenched venues the nascent San Francisco sound began in. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead owned an "A-frame" house in Mill Valley in Marin county and probably had Owsley's number on the wall. "Those day-glo freaks who used to paint the face have joined the human race." The daisy-chain hippies in Golden Gate Park with the painted faces eventually got jobs like their parents. Owlsey did go down to LA and supplied the six Acid Tests between Feb and March of '66 in southern California. "Still an outlaw in their eyes" ... LSD became outlawed in California in October of '66. Anyway... yeah, it's a potent song in many ways. Pregnant with meaning". I'll add that the "White men in the streets" refers to the rise of cocaine and how people turned from LSD after it was outlawed. Also Stanley was captured by the police when his car ran out of gas (Is there gas in the car? Yes there’s gas in the car). Understand, this song was written during a major gas crisis in the western world and there were long lines at all the gas stations. So his concern about whether there would be gas in the car was a very real one. That he ran out of gas tells the story of the times.
I would seriously recommend the entire SD catalog, personal favorite is "Katy Lied", check out _Daddy don't live in that New York City no more,_ or _Bad Sneakers,_ or hell, just listen to the whole thing and pick one. :-) Oh, and from The Royal Scam, I recommend _Haitian Divorce,_ (the solo at the end is worth it) or _Don't take me alive._
Teez, you're just scratching the surface with Steely Dan. If you enjoy horns, Steely Dan has some of the greatest horn arrangements and solos you'll ever hear in popular music, from funky "Tower of Power" style to straight ahead hard bop solos from the likes of Tom Scott, Chris Potter, Phil Woods and the legendary Wayne Shorter - co-founder of Weather Report and one of Miles Davis' hand-picked sidemen. BTW, the guitars on Kid Charlemagne were performed by Larry Carlton, Bernard Purdie on skins, Chuck Rainey on bass, and Paul Griffin on Clavinet (keys). They always hired best-in-class studio aces.
I wonder if Larry Carlton even realized that he had just done a couple of the best guitar solos ever recorded? Night By Night is another (in a long line) of master-level SD songs. Good, fun reaction my friend.
Studio musicians back then, who didn't give a flying fuck about image or fame (for the most part). Pure musicians who were meticulous during recording sessions then duplicating it live to the best of their abilities. Rush and Steely Dan man... their non-image prevailed and became their image 😎
Everyone's Babe Ruth on this track..You got Bernard Purdie on skins, Chuck Rainey on Bass, and Jesus on guitar, Larry Carlton..My god, are you kidding?!..Of course the rest (too many to mention throughout!)..Damn!..SD takes no prisoners..EVER!
You pointed out the guitar after the vocals come back on after the solo. Very few people notice that. There's some nice little comments with distortion there. Brilliant shit. Great observation.
Like others have said… just a killer group of musicians. Aside from Becker/Fagan with that shuffle drum line (Purdie) and the meandering bass (Rainey). The clavinet left hand just adds to that funky sound. This is a master -track.
Man I'm with you where I heard Champion by Kanye before this song and was stunned lol. I'm around your age, maybe a bit older. Bro Steely Dan is fucking AMAZING. Not saying that you need to make reaction videos of these, but I highly recommend their songs: Kings, Bohdissatva, Bad Sneakers and The Fez. Subbing because you actually listen and enjoy a wide range of music.
I believe it is about a coke dealer though test tubes , but laced with kerosene is a coke reference not acid I've listened to every Dan album to AJA. On both !! But you may know I never heard Fagan or Becker tell meanings of the lyrics.
You know what I love about you friend? Y-O-U P-A-Y A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N.........just like we did back in the 70's when we were young......and you have NO FUCKIN idea just how these many gents were THE no bs standard bearers for brilliant, awkward nerds and irreverant sinners like me!!!
2 fantastic bands with very different approaches. I've seen Phish twice in Mountainview CA and Miami FL. Wonderful, talented jam band, loose, spontaneous and free-flowing like their strongest influence The Grateful Dead. Steely Dan is extremely tight, precise and scripted live, and they give room for spontaneity within the guitar/horns/keyboard solos. Both very satisfying.
You can't fuck with Chuck Rainey on bass. For example, while they use up to 3 or more guitarists on a single song, up to 5 drummers on an album, plus other session musicians, the guy in the band who plays bass will usually play one song, and Chuck plays the rest. At least on the stuff from 75 to 77. The final album has another bassist on it in addition to Chuck.
Imagine a singer who has to do take after take to get it right. That is the absence of auto tune. Now singers only have to be in the ballpark. It’s a shame that the human touch is being taken out of music.
Next recommended Steely Dan song:
“FM (No Static at All)”
The band steps up the funk on that song.
It’s all about the LSD 25...
Kid Charlemagne is about Owsley Stanley, sound engineer extraordinaire and the best LSD cook ever
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"Is there gas in the car?" "Yes, there's gas in the caaaar." LOL I believe this song is about Owsley Stanley, the famous LSD chemist and geniusnGrateful Dead sound engineer.
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The story is pretty vague here so I can add a little clarity - it’s about Owsley Stanley, the famous LSD chemist from the heydays of San Francisco’s psychedelic 60’s. The dude was a flamboyant character. I heard a first hand story about the time he parachuted to an outdoor concert stage, stuck the landing, broke out a satchel full of acid hits,and proceeded to fling them to the stunned audience. But in the end he didn’t “ get along”quite good enough - the Feds caught up with him and he did a couple of years in prison, then moved to Australia.
The Bear. References weren't vague , for some. Now or then.
Must’ve been an amazing time! When I learned a few years back what the lyrics meant, it suddenly took on new meaning and importance to me. 🔥
@@monatodd3501 Yeah, it must have been cool to be in that generation. I was just a kid in the late 60’s when big changes were happening. There’s a movie called “ Across The Universe” that really captured the spirit of that era nicely.
@@tcanfield I’ll have to check it out; thanks! 🙏
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Aja, Green Earrings, Everything Must Go, King of the Word, Babylon Sisters, Time Out of Mind, Two Against Nature, Bodhisattva to name few....
Oh yeah, _King of the World_ feels especially appropriate these days, and _Your Gold Teeth
Glamour Profession too!
The 70s, when almost anything could be funky.
Great guitarsolo too.
The bassline in this one is funky funky.
Bassline*
@@CoboProdz Like the fish?
Artists, both of them (Becker and Fagan) - they wrote delicious lyrics of lore, intrigue. Listen to “Babylon Sisters”. Please.
Yes Yes Yes!!!!! My favorite group!
“Take those test tubes and the scales; get it all outta here”
“Is there Gas In the Car?”, “Yes, there’s Gas in the Car” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can you guess what he’s talking about? 🔥
I've heard a lot of Steely Dan songs, but this is one that got by me; it's a trip. I need a good musical journey just now, gonna go find some other SD songs I missed. Anyone watching can tell you've an appreciative ear for this 👌
Listen to the whole Royal Scam album Tris. It's not always my favourite of their LPs (but it often is); there are some great songs on it. Echo what you say about appreciative ear. It's why I watch reaction videos. It's fantastic to see someone get bowled over by something that bowled me over 45 years ago.
Who you shiting? This one got by you? You’re a phony! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 just one of their biggest tunes. You don’t know Dan!
Larry Carlton on guitar is always amazing. Saw him perform this 2 weeks ago at a free show in Camden NJ!
When they went in to make the song they called in a handful of studio guitar players to try them out for the solo... and Larry Carlton came in and they loved his style. His appearance on this song helped shape his future for sure.
Steely Dan, my all time favorite band.
FYI.. Fagen and Becker wrote this song about Owsley Stanley, the Grateful Dead's chemist. He was Kid Charlemagne.
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He was the 5th generation from King Charlemagne of France. Hence the "Kid Charlemagne".
Steely dan makes you feel nostalgia from a place and time that you’ve never actually been too
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My apologies Stephen hawking
By this point Steely Dan was just Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and a hoard of excellent session musicians. Oh this song plus several others on this album, they had Bernard Purdie on drums, Chuck Rainey on bass, and Larry Carlton on that tasty guitar solo. You're gonna love delving into more Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne was one of their very best, but virtually every song they wrote was fabulous, full of grooves and jazzy keychanges and terrific solos just like this one.
One of the best guitar solos ever recorded. Pure class!
Steely Dan is the most sampled band. Every person says the same thing. They were great in concert. Can't be beat...
"the royal scam", "aja", "goucho" and Fagen's solo effort "the nightfly" are my desert-island records. Once you heard these records, you can't live without them. Steely Dan are in a league of their own.
This is what perfection sounds like.
Waited to see your eyes when the part sampled by Kanye showed up. Was not disappointed 🤣. Steely Dan has been pretty heavily sampled.
I have been watching all the reactors react to the Kanye line, It is funny that some miss the connection, but you can see via their body language that subconsciously they recognize the line.
All these rappers sample the 70’s genius musicians haha
"All those day-glo freaks that used to paint their face,
They've joined the human race.
Some things will never change"
As talented of musicians as Becker and Fagen are, I think it's their lyrics that really get me.
One of my all-time favorite Steely Dan songs! Their music is so intelligent yet soulful, incorporating the best musicians of the time! I must admit, I miss the brilliance that came from live studio recording, in the seventies!
The clav panned all the way to the left is just insane. Such a great mix, and an even better song
This about a boss LSD maker in san Fran in the late 60s who finally got popped.
Yep, he was also the genius sound engineer behind The Grateful Dead’s revolutionary sound system, the Wall of Sound, which is also responsible for “noise canceling” technology! Owsley Stanley aka “Bear”.
@@ericgerber9751 Phil Spector was responsible for The Wall Of Sound
@@djimaging2 that’s a different Wall of Sound. I was talking about the one the Dead toured with. Absolutely insane! I’d give anything to have heard it in person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)
@@ericgerber9751 Yeah man, it was quite an impressive sound system. It was my first GD show in summer 74’. But what I remember the most was the good vibes of the crowd.
@@ericgerber9751 Thanks guys, great history. I've been listening to these guys since the 70's and never knew that about this song.
I subscribed not only because it's Steely Dan, but the name "Teez McGee" is just too cool!
Great choice of Steely Dan songs to react to, definitely one of my favorites. If you get a chance to see them in concert jump on it. Steely Dan is phenomenal when they perform live, and we don't know how much longer we have before that's no longer an option.
One of the super groups of the 70’s. This is a pure example of Rock/Jazz fusion! 😎👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love Bernard Purdie's groove on this song!
My favorite drummer :-)
For the future, Steely Dan "Hey Nineteen" "Do It Again" "Reeling In The Years" "Peg" "Dirty Work" "Aja" "Deacon Blues" "Black Cow" "My Old School" "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" "Black Friday" "Josie." Never realize how many songs you love until you start looking them up. There's more, but I'll leave it here.
Yes! Great pick. Green Earrings from the same album is also must listen!
Entire Royal scam
It is so entertaining to watch a music lover appreciate music made, probably before you were born! Well done, bro!
Chuck Rainey is the bass player, and worked for Quincy Jones, and did a lot of sit com work. Bass line in the Jeffersons, Fat Albert, and Sanford and Son, he was also Aretha’s bass player in the early years along with this drummer Bernard Pretty Purdue. Best rhythm section anywhere
Ah! Another rabbit hole! Lots of great ear candy 🍬 from them! As you go on with SD you will see that many have sampled their records. ✌
Such a brilliant band!!!👍👌✌😎
You can tell they were all havin' a really good time recordin' that song! All the way through, and jammin' on at the fade, like that!...
My real regret, never getting the chance to see the mighty Steely Dan
So 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 you liked this! Steely Dan is just the 𝘉𝘌𝘚𝘛. (Michael McDonald, from the Doobie Brothers - another band you 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 check out, if you haven't already - sings back-up on the last chorus.) And your face when you recognized "Kanye's song" was hilarious. ❁
Ok......this a song about Owsley Stanley. He made all the LSD for the acid tests on the west coast back in the 60s. He also was a sound engineer and designer. He was the Grateful Dead sound man/designer who created the “Wall of Sound”. He also created the skull and lightning bolt design. It’s what they used to identify their equipment at festivals. He also supported them with $$$ back in the day when they were starting out.
You can't go wrong with Steely Dan.
That was some sick drumming by Bernard"Pretty"Purdie.Chuck Rainey on bass and Larry Carlton on lead guitar made this one of the best songs ever recorded.🎶🎸🔥🌴
I thought I heard the shuffle on the drums lol.
Great Reaction! Glad to see you give some props for Bernard Purdie on drums and Larry Carleton on guitar.
The rhythm section on this track is as good as it gets. Bernard Purdie on drums and Chuck Rainey on bass...
If you like that groove, check out a guest shot they did on the Aretha Franklin song "Rock Steady".
And, if you want your mind blown... remember that "Rock Steady" was just them goofing around in the studio. The producer and engineer were late to a session so Aretha wrote this song to give Bernard and Chuck something to do. They put down the basic tracks themselves on the spot and then the producer added the finishing touches later.
One of the most admired lead guitar tracks in Rock history - Larry Carlton at his finest.
Great review, steely Dan and Donald Fagen with their 40 years/12 studio albums combined, hands-down the most original, Creative force in Pop music history!
This is the kinda shit you turn way up - sounds so damn good
I didn't write this. David Ryder gave this nice explanation of this song:
"Check out the wikipedia article about Owsley Stanley. He was not the creator of LSD, but he certainly was "the best in town" and made literally millions of doses in his East Bay underground lab and "turned it on the world", while moonlighting as the Grateful Dead's first sound engineer. "Those San Francisco nights" would be "The Matrix", "Avalon Ballroom" and those other tiny acid-drenched venues the nascent San Francisco sound began in. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead owned an "A-frame" house in Mill Valley in Marin county and probably had Owsley's number on the wall. "Those day-glo freaks who used to paint the face have joined the human race." The daisy-chain hippies in Golden Gate Park with the painted faces eventually got jobs like their parents. Owlsey did go down to LA and supplied the six Acid Tests between Feb and March of '66 in southern California. "Still an outlaw in their eyes" ... LSD became outlawed in California in October of '66. Anyway... yeah, it's a potent song in many ways. Pregnant with meaning".
I'll add that the "White men in the streets" refers to the rise of cocaine and how people turned from LSD after it was outlawed. Also Stanley was captured by the police when his car ran out of gas (Is there gas in the car? Yes there’s gas in the car). Understand, this song was written during a major gas crisis in the western world and there were long lines at all the gas stations. So his concern about whether there would be gas in the car was a very real one. That he ran out of gas tells the story of the times.
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Check out as many SD songs as you possibly can as they are all fantastic and *highly* addictive haha
Bernard Purdie on drums, Chuck Rainey on bass - name a more iconic duo.
I would seriously recommend the entire SD catalog, personal favorite is "Katy Lied", check out _Daddy don't live in that New York City no more,_ or _Bad Sneakers,_ or hell, just listen to the whole thing and pick one. :-) Oh, and from The Royal Scam, I recommend _Haitian Divorce,_ (the solo at the end is worth it) or _Don't take me alive._
Thank you for the late afternoon/evening reactions. 😜
smooth jazz fusion is Steely Dan...........
Teez, you're just scratching the surface with Steely Dan. If you enjoy horns, Steely Dan has some of the greatest horn arrangements and solos you'll ever hear in popular music, from funky "Tower of Power" style to straight ahead hard bop solos from the likes of Tom Scott, Chris Potter, Phil Woods and the legendary Wayne Shorter - co-founder of Weather Report and one of Miles Davis' hand-picked sidemen. BTW, the guitars on Kid Charlemagne were performed by Larry Carlton, Bernard Purdie on skins, Chuck Rainey on bass, and Paul Griffin on Clavinet (keys). They always hired best-in-class studio aces.
You tell him Rich! 👍
@@jacqueline4514 Yeah, Teez is in for a treat. Such a cool band with a long, plush, meaty catalog.
The horns on Caves of Altamira are the shit straight up
Teez; Steely Dan is going to be at PNC Holmdel this summer (God Willing); already saw them there a couple times when Walter Becker was still alive.
Love your reaction Teez. See SD in concert. Its a whole vibe.
Hello from Cody Wyoming! You're awesome keep it up🤠
Class band,class track
That rhythm section is bananas.
Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car! CLASSIC!
Awesome funky vibe here !! 👌
I wonder if Larry Carlton even realized that he had just done a couple of the best guitar solos ever recorded?
Night By Night is another (in a long line) of master-level SD songs. Good, fun reaction my friend.
Studio musicians back then, who didn't give a flying fuck about image or fame (for the most part).
Pure musicians who were meticulous during recording sessions then duplicating it live to the best of their abilities.
Rush and Steely Dan man... their non-image prevailed and became their image 😎
This whole album is Fire 🔥
Everyone's Babe Ruth on this track..You got Bernard Purdie on skins, Chuck Rainey on Bass, and Jesus on guitar, Larry Carlton..My god, are you kidding?!..Of course the rest (too many to mention throughout!)..Damn!..SD takes no prisoners..EVER!
You gotta do the song “Green Earrings” from the same album. Super funky, lots of stellar guitar.
You are obviously a man of much discernment and understanding…
Larry Carleton plays one of the best and strangest guitar solos. Every musician on this track was the best in their field.
Genius.
You pointed out the guitar after the vocals come back on after the solo. Very few people notice that. There's some nice little comments with distortion there. Brilliant shit. Great observation.
Like others have said… just a killer group of musicians. Aside from Becker/Fagan with that shuffle drum line (Purdie) and the meandering bass (Rainey). The clavinet left hand just adds to that funky sound. This is a master -track.
Awesome!
Man I'm with you where I heard Champion by Kanye before this song and was stunned lol. I'm around your age, maybe a bit older. Bro Steely Dan is fucking AMAZING. Not saying that you need to make reaction videos of these, but I highly recommend their songs: Kings, Bohdissatva, Bad Sneakers and The Fez. Subbing because you actually listen and enjoy a wide range of music.
Saw these dudes a few times years ago. You should check em out on vid playing live if you can find a good one. Awesome live band.
That's Emmy-winning Larry Carlton on the gee-tarrr.
Omg pleaseeeeee do green earrings from this album!
Oh sweet you finally got around to kid charlemagne
From the same album Don’t Take Me Alive
You gotta hit up Aja, on the album of the same name. That song is amazing. Every song on that album is worth reacting to, for sure.
I believe it is about a coke dealer though test tubes , but laced with kerosene is a coke reference not acid I've listened to every Dan album to AJA. On both !! But you may know I never heard Fagan or Becker tell meanings of the lyrics.
The outro alone is worth the price of admission...
You know what I love about you friend? Y-O-U P-A-Y A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N.........just like we did back in the 70's when we were young......and you have NO FUCKIN idea just how these many gents were THE no bs standard bearers for brilliant, awkward nerds and irreverant sinners like me!!!
I come here strictly for Phish reactions but this was great! Or as Teez would say “that was fire!”
2 fantastic bands with very different approaches. I've seen Phish twice in Mountainview CA and Miami FL. Wonderful, talented jam band, loose, spontaneous and free-flowing like their strongest influence The Grateful Dead. Steely Dan is extremely tight, precise and scripted live, and they give room for spontaneity within the guitar/horns/keyboard solos. Both very satisfying.
K west shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath as these masters
🔥track 🔥reaction
Yes sampled a few times
OMG, Chuck Rainey on bass! I'm a bass player and I can't touch this.
Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car!
Kanye West sampling Steely Dan feels like a burglar just broke into your house and crapped on your favourite couch
Larry Carlton with some smoking leads.
You can't fuck with Chuck Rainey on bass. For example, while they use up to 3 or more guitarists on a single song, up to 5 drummers on an album, plus other session musicians, the guy in the band who plays bass will usually play one song, and Chuck plays the rest. At least on the stuff from 75 to 77. The final album has another bassist on it in addition to Chuck.
😉 Hopefully some more SD soon! 🤞🏿🍿🐰
You need Steely's Green Earrings next.
They don't have a bad song!
Uno!
Great job
❤️❤️❤️❤️👍
Kid Charlemagne is Augustus Stanley Owsley. Google him.
larry carlton on guitar 🎸
FM 🔝
Imagine a singer who has to do take after take to get it right. That is the absence of auto tune. Now singers only have to be in the ballpark. It’s a shame that the human touch is being taken out of music.