Larry Carlton on guitar, Joe Sample on Clavinet, Victor Feldman on Rhodes, Chuck Rainey on bass, Rick Marotta on drums, and Fagen himself handling the piano solo.
This is actually Purdie on drums. You hear him on the same kit with the same microphones in the same session on the alternative version of Stand By the Seawall, where you can hear him count in :)
I believe this is basically about drugs. I think "the bear" refers to drugs. (Either you got the bear or the bear got you) This is, as I understand it, a "demo" and is not a finished product. To me.. it has an unfished "hollow" sound to it. There were a ton of "problems" in the time period of the Gaucho recording... including the death by overdose of Walter Beckers girlfriend. An engineer accidentally erased one of the main tracks as well. They went back in the studio but could not seem to "get it right" so it never made the album. Great reaction, guys. Take care.
There were at least two songs left off Gaucho…this is one, the other is Second Arrangement. Both great numbers in the Dan genre…conflicting stories about how/why but it is what it is. Glad you found it, maybe look for the Second Arrangement…thank you, you guys are always on point and never disappoint!
I’ve been a Dan fan since age 10 ( thanks to my uncle who ironically went by the nickname The Bear ). You guys would fit right in at a live show , all you see is fans in their seats boppin’ heads 😊
Very cool you guys are willing to do Steely Dan outtakes, ie songs that didn't make the Gaucho album! I was very lucky to hear this tune played live at the one off NYC Rarities Concert at the Beacon in 2011. The first time they ever played it live! They also played another outtake from Gaucho, Second Arrangement, which I like even better! Hope you can do that one too. Its too bad these weren't included on the Gaucho album in 1980. I won't bore you with the story of how their recording tapes got screwed up, but if you Google it you can find out. The crazy thing is had this been released a few years later when cds were being released, they could have fit both The Bear and Second Arrangement on the Gaucho album, since cds could fit 80 min of music instead of just 45. If you want to see live footage of them playing these 2 songs live at that Rarities Concert, its been posted on RUclips in pretty good sound and decent visuals (not pro shot). Thx again, and hopefully react to Second Arrangement (you could react to that live video)!
THE BEAR (HIS ADDICTION) WAS LEFT IN REHAB..... HE'S NOW 15000 MILES AWAY.... ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF YOU GOT THE BEAR OR THE BEAR GOT YOU. HE'S ON THE RUN FROM 'THE BEAR'. THE DAN CAN TELL SOME STORIES...GREAT LYRICS.
You guys know your music!!! Even to knowing the meaning of the song to what piano keys are being used. Great reactions!!! 👍 It didn't make it due to the length of the song and subject matter. Remember studio and radio 📻 were restricted by lyrics and length of songs.
Owsley Stanley used the professional name Bear. Kid Charlemagne is about him. He was the king of lsd in the Bay area of SF during the hippy days. "On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene, but yours was kitchen clean. Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motorhome." The hippy bus was a 1939 International Harvester School bus painted technicolor and driven around by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters 1964 giving out free lsd. Probably from the Bear's lab.
I love this tune. Funky, dark, and Fagen at his menacing best. I always wonder, if they committed to this track for Gaucho, whether they'd continue to polish it for the final cut - a searing guitar solo from Carlton or Khan, and a horn arrangement.
Steely Dan has so many sounds combined-kind of a sofistication. I was listening to US3 -Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) Remix...another song with sofistication. Would love to get your reaction...👍🏼 Super Saturday wake up!
There are some SD songs that weren't initially published because they weren't quite good enough to meet the highly placed bar the duo set for their product. This is one of the better of those.
An engineer accidentally damaged or erased the tapes. Plus, in 1979-80, you were still limited to 45 min for a LP. When cds came out a few years later, they could fit 80 min of music on a CD.
Gentlemen good to be here I'd like to bring to mind,a couple of blues artists that I think your gonna be amazed with, Tobacco Road live by Johnny and Edgar Winters. Pl,please, please treat yourself to some of the best in the business....enjoy and God Bless
They didn’t do an album of outtakes. But there are cleaned up versions of demos and the like floating around. My favorites are The Second Arrangement and Kulee Baba. They did TSA once live in a rarities concert. You have a great clean version of Bear here, best I’ve heard. Where did you find this one?
I was at the 2011 NYC Beacon Rarities Night! They played both The Bear and Second Arrangement! And Dr Wu for only the 7th (and last) time! I loved Second Arrangement instantly, and The Bear chorus obviously was catchy. We were stunned and it was surreal hearing this "new" Steely Dan music.
Hi I just found you guys by accident and I have been going through your reactions they are great, but I am very surprised you haven't done any Porcupine Tree in particular as you love both Yes and Pink Floyd so much, they are also British Progressive rock at it's best, if I may like a good waiter suggest you might like to try Arriving Somewhere Not Here live and prepare to have you socks blown off.
Plenty of other tracks that might have made Gaucho including Kind Spirit, Talkin’ Bout My Home, Kulee Baba, and The Second Arrangement. Some of the tracks appear in different forms. For The Second Arrangement, I suggest you go with the full band version. It is lower rez but closer to what the band was intending before abandoning the song. Others here will tell you The Second Arrangement is the one that got away. I’d argue it could have been the lead single off Gaucho.
On Walter Becker's first solo album he used that line, if I got the bear or the bear got me, think it's a drug use reference but I dunno. Probably best to leave this song for the outtakes.
Knowing that you like Dark Side of the Moon and Steely Dan, I think you'd like Alan Parsons Project - I, Robot Album (play the song Breakdown). Alan Parsons was sound engineer on DSOM and on two Beatles Albums.
Great reaction to this brilliant song - "How the hell did this not make it onto the album?" Drugs. And personal tragedy...Fagen & Becker were both in a bad place during the Gaucho sessions and it was especially hard for Becker. Their drive for perfection was exasperated by drugs and it affected their decision making. The musicians were quite puzzled at the takes that never made it lol
It was mostly due to the tapes from the recording sessions being damaged or erased. Plus, Gaucho was right before cds would allow you to fit 80 min on an album. Had this been 5 years later, probably both tunes make the album (if they could have recreated the songs without the tapes).
Even unpolished, incomplete studio demos from Steely Dan’s vault sound better than finished recordings from lesser artists, IMHO. Some of the outtakes from the Gaucho sessions were actually songs that may have been written but not recorded for previous albums. To me, “The Bear” sounds more like it would have fit with The Royal Scam, for example. “The Second Arrangement” was indeed the biggest “lost track” tragedy to come from these sessions. There are numerous bootleg versions of the track to be found online, so you might need to read the descriptions before listening to find the most complete version available.
Gaucho was a good record - not quite as amazing as Aja but that's a hard album to follow! I swear, though -- if I could write a song this good and it's NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the album....OMG.
Just to be clear -- this collection is of *bootlegs--tapes that various “loyal” employees took it upon themselves to release, whereas Becker and Fagen either didn’t want to release them, or in some case, had not even *finished* the track. Just think you should know what you are listening to.
@@Cpayne30 no doubt -as a fan I’m glad we have them. But no overdubs (!not even percussion or bvox), what I suspect is a scratch vocal (have we *ever* heard them use an echo like that on a lead?), the possibility of changed lyrics etc etc not to mention not mixed or mastered (and personally I can see what they might have thought this one didn’t structurally go with other Gaucho tunes). But yeah, context is key when listening and enjoying “work product” that the artists themselves never meant to have heard by anybody
I can see why it did not make the final cut for the Gaucho album. I love the song and the personnel is top tier as usual but, to me, it sounds like something is missing, as if there’s not enough layers of sound or nuances to the flow. We are accustomed to such perfection that even an “in progress” song like this sounds like it should have made the album. Nice comments as usual.
I am sure this song with an extra fagen and becker studio month of obsessing over extra background vocals, mixing , adding horns, etc , everything that makes the steely dan sound, and it would sound like it would make the cut.
@@danielmccann8325 I'm certain that they could have applied some extra gloss and sheen (maybe a solo or 2)..it's certainly missing a little bit. May I call you Hoops?
The songs that were outtakes weren't finished. The Bear, Second Arrangement etc. They hadn't applied horns to them yet for one thing. Its not a finished product and the original recording tapes were either erased or damaged. That's why you hear "something missing" 🙄
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Larry Carlton on guitar, Joe Sample on Clavinet, Victor Feldman on Rhodes, Chuck Rainey on bass, Rick Marotta on drums, and Fagen himself handling the piano solo.
Did Walter sit this one out? I always thought this was him.
This is actually Purdie on drums. You hear him on the same kit with the same microphones in the same session on the alternative version of Stand By the Seawall, where you can hear him count in :)
@@michaelcaplin8969yup my thoughts exactly
Wow I didn’t know these songs existed. Love it. ⭐️😁
I believe this is basically about drugs. I think "the bear" refers to drugs. (Either you got the bear or the bear got you) This is, as I understand it, a "demo" and is not a finished product. To me.. it has an unfished "hollow" sound to it. There were a ton of "problems" in the time period of the Gaucho recording... including the death by overdose of Walter Beckers girlfriend. An engineer accidentally erased one of the main tracks as well. They went back in the studio but could not seem to "get it right" so it never made the album. Great reaction, guys. Take care.
Yeah, I had the same feeling that it had a “hallow” unfinished sound. That said, it’s still a fantastic tune.
OUTTAKES FROM ALL THEIR ALBUMS ARE TOP NOTCH..
THE DAN....
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING.
There were at least two songs left off Gaucho…this is one, the other is Second Arrangement. Both great numbers in the Dan genre…conflicting stories about how/why but it is what it is. Glad you found it, maybe look for the Second Arrangement…thank you, you guys are always on point and never disappoint!
There is also “Kind Spirit”, and “Kulee Baba”, the latter of which is amazing
Please do the live version of "Jack of Speed." It's smooth like butter. Appreciate you guys!
Seconded! Live 1996.
Why did I see the trailer for the movie Cocain Bear 🐻 and immediately started singing The Bear? 😳 Steely Dan has a tune for every situation in life 🙌
Damn!!! That's one fonky ass jam!!! Thanks for turning me on to a new Steely Dan favorite.
YOU TWO ARE FANTASTIC AT THIS REACTING..GAUCHO, ONE OF MY 10 FAVORITE ALBUMS AFTER 55 YEARS OF LISTENING TO MANY GENRES AND STYLES.
I’ve been a Dan fan since age 10 ( thanks to my uncle who ironically went by the nickname The Bear ). You guys would fit right in at a live show , all you see is fans in their seats boppin’ heads 😊
I've never heard this before..thanks!
That s*** was super funky good stuff. Can't believe I've never heard that 1 before.
The outtakes a great discovery for fans.
Wow guys thanks for turning me into a SD song I’ve never heard! And it rocked
The "Stevie Wonder" sound is the clavinet -- as John Chu pointed out, played here by the amazing Joe Sample.
Very cool you guys are willing to do Steely Dan outtakes, ie songs that didn't make the Gaucho album! I was very lucky to hear this tune played live at the one off NYC Rarities Concert at the Beacon in 2011. The first time they ever played it live! They also played another outtake from Gaucho, Second Arrangement, which I like even better! Hope you can do that one too.
Its too bad these weren't included on the Gaucho album in 1980. I won't bore you with the story of how their recording tapes got screwed up, but if you Google it you can find out. The crazy thing is had this been released a few years later when cds were being released, they could have fit both The Bear and Second Arrangement on the Gaucho album, since cds could fit 80 min of music instead of just 45.
If you want to see live footage of them playing these 2 songs live at that Rarities Concert, its been posted on RUclips in pretty good sound and decent visuals (not pro shot). Thx again, and hopefully react to Second Arrangement (you could react to that live video)!
Love when you guys break down a great song! I always learn something, and enjoy the ride!
THE BEAR (HIS ADDICTION) WAS LEFT IN REHAB.....
HE'S NOW 15000 MILES AWAY....
ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF YOU GOT THE BEAR OR THE BEAR GOT YOU.
HE'S ON THE RUN FROM
'THE BEAR'.
THE DAN CAN TELL SOME STORIES...GREAT LYRICS.
Love everything about it great job guys 👍
There's so many outtakes you guys should check out and they all sound great
You guys know your music!!! Even to knowing the meaning of the song to what piano keys are being used. Great reactions!!! 👍 It didn't make it due to the length of the song and subject matter. Remember studio and radio 📻 were restricted by lyrics and length of songs.
Great song and reaction. Playlist.
Owsley Stanley used the professional name Bear. Kid Charlemagne is about him. He was the king of lsd in the Bay area of SF during the hippy days. "On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene, but yours was kitchen clean. Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motorhome." The hippy bus was a 1939 International Harvester School bus painted technicolor and driven around by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters 1964 giving out free lsd. Probably from the Bear's lab.
Thanks for sharing that hidden eargasm! 🎧
I love this tune. Funky, dark, and Fagen at his menacing best. I always wonder, if they committed to this track for Gaucho, whether they'd continue to polish it for the final cut - a searing guitar solo from Carlton or Khan, and a horn arrangement.
Yep, none of the outtakes had horn tracks added to them yet, so definitely not "finished".
Steely Dan has so many sounds combined-kind of a sofistication. I was listening to US3 -Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) Remix...another song with sofistication. Would love to get your reaction...👍🏼 Super Saturday wake up!
There are some SD songs that weren't initially published because they weren't quite good enough to meet the highly placed bar the duo set for their product. This is one of the better of those.
An engineer accidentally damaged or erased the tapes. Plus, in 1979-80, you were still limited to 45 min for a LP. When cds came out a few years later, they could fit 80 min of music on a CD.
😮 this shit is slick, damn it man!
Gentlemen good to be here I'd like to bring to mind,a couple of blues artists that I think your gonna be amazed with, Tobacco Road live by Johnny and Edgar Winters. Pl,please, please treat yourself to some of the best in the business....enjoy and God Bless
Damn, thought i was the super fan......what..... thank:)
They didn’t do an album of outtakes. But there are cleaned up versions of demos and the like floating around. My favorites are The Second Arrangement and Kulee Baba. They did TSA once live in a rarities concert. You have a great clean version of Bear here, best I’ve heard. Where did you find this one?
I was at the 2011 NYC Beacon Rarities Night! They played both The Bear and Second Arrangement! And Dr Wu for only the 7th (and last) time! I loved Second Arrangement instantly, and The Bear chorus obviously was catchy. We were stunned and it was surreal hearing this "new" Steely Dan music.
Congrats to your Kings watching em in game 2 rn this shi is crazzzy 🔥🏀
Great Game!!
@@AirplayBeats who says playoff bball ain’t physical anymore haha
Progressive rock/jazz fusion is,
Steely Dan.
‘My Old School’. Please ❤️❤️❤️
I named a cat Aja. I could listen to these "cats" all/every day. Rock on.
This feels like a SD interpretation of "maybe your baby". That swampy sticky stanky booty funk.
I literally clicked enter on this about 15 seconds before you mentioned how the keys feel like Stevie. :D
Hi I just found you guys by accident and I have been going through your reactions they are great, but I am very surprised you haven't done any Porcupine Tree in particular as you love both Yes and Pink Floyd so much, they are also British Progressive rock at it's best, if I may like a good waiter suggest you might like to try Arriving Somewhere Not Here live and prepare to have you socks blown off.
We will look into them. Thank you!!
Didn't know this song even existed
Almost sounds like The Allan Parsons Project in the beginning.
Plenty of other tracks that might have made Gaucho including Kind Spirit, Talkin’ Bout My Home, Kulee Baba, and The Second Arrangement.
Some of the tracks appear in different forms. For The Second Arrangement, I suggest you go with the full band version. It is lower rez but closer to what the band was intending before abandoning the song. Others here will tell you The Second Arrangement is the one that got away. I’d argue it could have been the lead single off Gaucho.
On a side note I suggest you react to jazz violinist Jean Luc Ponte he has a very long catalog of songs. Very unique sound.
On Walter Becker's first solo album he used that line, if I got the bear or the bear got me, think it's a drug use reference but I dunno. Probably best to leave this song for the outtakes.
Right. Track one - Down in the Bottom.
One day Air Play Beats will try some solo WB, and a light will go on.
Not an official album, but it's a slice of nirvana for DanFans. ... You gotta do The Second Arrangement, full band version. The holy grail, gentlemen.
Knowing that you like Dark Side of the Moon and Steely Dan, I think you'd like Alan Parsons Project - I, Robot Album (play the song Breakdown). Alan Parsons was sound engineer on DSOM and on two Beatles Albums.
Another good one 👍
5:29 is a sign you need to react to him.
Would love for ya'll to review Take Me To the Mardi Gras by Bob James. I know ya'll will more than appreciate the historical sigfnicance of that song.
You guys HAVE to react to I.G.Y. from Donald Fagen's 'The Nightfly' !!!
We did. Should be out within the next week or so
@@AirplayBeats sensational!
"True companion" by donald fagen is killer.
Great reaction to this brilliant song - "How the hell did this not make it onto the album?" Drugs. And personal tragedy...Fagen & Becker were both in a bad place during the Gaucho sessions and it was especially hard for Becker. Their drive for perfection was exasperated by drugs and it affected their decision making. The musicians were quite puzzled at the takes that never made it lol
It was mostly due to the tapes from the recording sessions being damaged or erased. Plus, Gaucho was right before cds would allow you to fit 80 min on an album. Had this been 5 years later, probably both tunes make the album (if they could have recreated the songs without the tapes).
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Even unpolished, incomplete studio demos from Steely Dan’s vault sound better than finished recordings from lesser artists, IMHO. Some of the outtakes from the Gaucho sessions were actually songs that may have been written but not recorded for previous albums. To me, “The Bear” sounds more like it would have fit with The Royal Scam, for example. “The Second Arrangement” was indeed the biggest “lost track” tragedy to come from these sessions. There are numerous bootleg versions of the track to be found online, so you might need to read the descriptions before listening to find the most complete version available.
Yea those keys sound like Royal Scam
And this is just a half finished rendering, not a final cut. Imagine what it could have been........
Best song ever to not make the final cut
Dr Wu.
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You still have Pretzel Logic to go. Love your reactions
Gaucho was a good record - not quite as amazing as Aja but that's a hard album to follow! I swear, though -- if I could write a song this good and it's NOT GOOD ENOUGH for the album....OMG.
Well said. I concur.
Why haven't you listened to "Deacon Blues" Yet?! 👋😎👍
We have
Doh!😮
Just to be clear -- this collection is of *bootlegs--tapes that various “loyal” employees took it upon themselves to release, whereas Becker and Fagen either didn’t want to release them, or in some case, had not even *finished* the track. Just think you should know what you are listening to.
It's best for them to research beforehand on these outtakes, I agree. They aren't necessarily fulled realized versions, but are great nonetheless.
@@Cpayne30 no doubt -as a fan I’m glad we have them. But no overdubs (!not even percussion or bvox), what I suspect is a scratch vocal (have we *ever* heard them use an echo like that on a lead?), the possibility of changed lyrics etc etc not to mention not mixed or mastered (and personally I can see what they might have thought this one didn’t structurally go with other Gaucho tunes). But yeah, context is key when listening and enjoying “work product” that the artists themselves never meant to have heard by anybody
They've never made a bad song sure you may like some more than others but none are bad
I can see why it did not make the final cut for the Gaucho album. I love the song and the personnel is top tier as usual but, to me, it sounds like something is missing, as if there’s not enough layers of sound or nuances to the flow. We are accustomed to such perfection that even an “in progress” song like this sounds like it should have made the album. Nice comments as usual.
Totally agree. The Extraordinary men of the groove have ultra-high standards.
I am sure this song with an extra fagen and becker studio month of obsessing over extra background vocals, mixing , adding horns, etc , everything that makes the steely dan sound, and it would sound like it would make the cut.
@@danielmccann8325 I'm certain that they could have applied some extra gloss and sheen (maybe a solo or 2)..it's certainly missing a little bit. May I call you Hoops?
@@briangray00 Haha yes sir, been called that since my college days, and not because of any basketball skills!
The songs that were outtakes weren't finished. The Bear, Second Arrangement etc. They hadn't applied horns to them yet for one thing. Its not a finished product and the original recording tapes were either erased or damaged. That's why you hear "something missing" 🙄
A nice song, but I don't think it beats out any of the tracks already on Gaucho
Its an unfinished outtake. The original recordings were erased. The song was unfinished.
Sort of makes sense it's not on the album. Not that it isn't a great song, but it has a different feel or vibe from the other Gaucho songs.
Gold teeth 11 is way better than the first one.
DONALD FAGENS
'TEAHOUSE ON THE TRACKS'
ABOUT A DANCE CLUB THAT WILL HAVE YOU DANC'N...I GUARANTEE.
WHEN YOU DO SD OUTTAKES OR DEMOS......DO THE REMASTERED (RESTORED) VERSIONS.
YOU WILL HEAR THE DIFFERENCE.