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STEELY DAN "KID CHARLEMAGNE" (reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2021
- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan!
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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 have to say "Is there gas in the car?" to me is one of their funniest lines. Also the way Larry Carlton plays over the chord changes in the first solo is so tasty and well thought out.
That gas in the car line makes so much more sense now!! Thank you for adding that context!
Great comment! I knew the broad outlines, and was around to be turned on by Owsley, BUT did not know all these lyrics details... Thanx
@@SightAfterDark I want to retract my line about the gas crisis. Owsley was arrested in 1967 while the gas crisis was in 1973. However, SD was writing this song at the time of the gas crisis. Sorry for the mistake.
he is obsolete...look at all the white men on the street was the middle class cottage industry of the drug culture was replaced with an urban poor man saturation...So to see that white man working the street means his time was over and he had become obsolete...back in 60's and early 70's the drug culture was a cottage industry in that the dealers were users who supplemented income or costs...Later on with CIA opening the flood gates saw these drugs hit the very poor regions and gangs began to deal...Especially Hispanics and black culture in LA..
@@helgar791 bUT HE GOT PINCHED WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY RAN OUT OF FUEL..
And Larry Carlton is KILLER on lead guitar; often lauded as one of the best rock solos ever!
Thanks. It sounded like something he would do, and I wondered.
Yeah, by people that only heard one song in their lives...I love Larry and Steely Dan since I had the Royal Scam on 8 track...But...Every guitar solo on Pink Floyd animals is a a thousand times more intricate and beautiful...Then consider all the Steve Howe solos... Black Sabbath Warning, Rush, La Villa Strangato It's not even in the top 300...
@@godbluffvdgg To each his own. :)
@@theroyalscam Indeed.
I forgot that Rick Beato did an episode on this song. I watched again last night.
Larry Carlton played that solo through a little fender tweed amp. He just killed it. Later when Donald asked him to come to New York to play on his Nightfly album, they were sitting in the control room and Donald asked where his amp was. Larry told him he just brought his guitar and figured they'd rent an amp. Donald had the amp flown to New York for the session.
Love that! Man needs his amp!
What a great story and it clearly shows the genius in Donald Fagen’s ear...he knew the sound he wanted and that the amp was going to help get him that sound in his head...
Steely frickin Dan. Been listening to them for decades. The more I listen to them (can't get enough of them) the more I am blown away.
Same here! Minus the decades part 😬
The “Purdie Shuffle”! The great Bernard Purdie on drums. And of course as has been said, the amazing Larry Carlton on the now very famous guitar solos. The lyric “Is there gas in the car? Yes there’s gas in the car!” is a fan favourite. Phenomenal opening track.
Don't forget Chuck Rainey on bass!
Purdie the legend!
Yeah, concert crowds took to singing the response "yes there's gas in the car" along with Donald and generally getting happy whenever that line happened.
Finally, someone recognizing the insane drumming by Bernard Purdie! His shuffle beat, ghost notes and high hat work is the essence of funk greatness.
This great song is about Owsley Stanley, the famous LSD king, in the sixties,. He was also the sound engineer for the Grateful Dead. In the early days, the money he made from acid sales helped bankroll the band, when they were starting out. He famously designed the Dead’s “Wall of Sound”, the huge racks of stacked amps, that was quite groundbreaking, in those days. His acid was noticeably cleaner than other choices available then. Good times!
The acid king!! Should’ve guessed that was the drug. Thanks for watching Dan!
Owsley was also the fifth generation descendant of King Charlamagne of France. Hence "Kid" Charlamagne.
@@danielthompson6880Holy shit I didn't know that. Thanks for that.
Ah, the Royal Scam. Hope it’s a full album reaction. My personal fav Steely LP. Enjoy
Will be doing the whole album!! Thanks for watching Robert!
Mine too although Aja is a close 2nd followed probably by Gaucho
Haitian Divorce; Caves of Altimira; Don't Take Me Alive which feature another Larry Carlton guitar intro and my fav Green Earrings.
Enjoy
This should cement things for you guys. The guitar solos by Carlton are award winning. The bass guitar in KC is filthy savage too. It's gonna take multiple listenings before you hear it all. Like the punctuation of the clavinet. Enjoy the filth.
This was a great one! We definitely enjoyed 😊
Kanye West sampled the lyric “did you realize that you were a champion in their eyes?” in his 2007 song “Champion”. So many artists sampled Steely Dan over the years.
I knew it sounded familiar!
Kayne sent a hand written letter to Donald and Walter saying this was his dad's favorite Steely Dan song and could he sample? Donald said yes of course.
"Steal the Dan"
@@patrickstallings9613 Yup!!!
Love that you guys are digging Steely Dan. So awesome! Do Deacon Blues please.
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This was when we first started doing reactions, so our quality/style is a bit different
I like how you guys get right into the song, and don't interrupt while the music is playing. Excellent!!!
Haha thanks William! We used to pause vids sometimes but we found out pretty quickly we shouldn’t do that 😂
Very much a Rock Fusion band with a lot of jazz influences.... And their bass lines have always got some funk!
We’re all about that Bass!
The legendary Chuck Rainey
I've been listening to Steely Dan since they first hit back in the 70's and now that I'm watching you newcomers react to this music I can see now how they laid down some killer grooves on a lot of their songs. Bernard "Pretty" Purdie on drums layin' down a monster groove and Larry Carlton shredding on guitar. BTW The poison that Kid Charlemagne was cooking up was LSD or Orange Sunshine as it was known in these parts. I once had a six way hit of Owsley's orange sunshine (acid for you millennials) and well what can I say except it was a life changing experience. Thank you kid Charlemagne - mind BLOWN!
Nice
The intro keys -- the hook. The guitar and percussion are crisp and tight. This tune is stellar. Great memories with this one.
One of the first concerts I attended in 1975 when I arrived in Canada was at the CNE in Toronto to see Steely Dan and then I was hooked I couldn't get enough of them and the the year of 77 was the ultimate when in one summer got to see, SD, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac, ELO, STYX. Heady days and great memories to grow old with.
Based on famous LSD dealer/chemist Owlsley!
Should’ve guessed it was LSD!
Owsley Stanley made LSD for Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, and the Grateful Dead. Charlemagne. King of the first Holy Roman Empire. Larry Carlton, ace studio guitarist.
As far as Donald having a “style” now, his style was defined on The Boston Rag where his over enunciation became his trademark. Always love your reviews. 😎👍♥️
Thanks for watching!
If you haven't seen them, I highly recommend Rick Beato's series of "What Makes This Song Great?" videos. He did one for Kid Charlemagne. Here: ruclips.net/video/xKIC9zbSJoE/видео.html
He's a musician, teacher and producer. He somehow has the music stems (the individual tracks used to make up the song) and is able to isolate them.
I just watched Rick interview Larry Carlton today.
Rick is the man!! Always wondered how he had the stems 🧐
@@SightAfterDark He’s got producer connections. I heard somewhere that producers share them between themselves 🤫😂
Makes sense!
love love love!
So amazing i can hear people appreciate this amazing song. When it came out - we'd never heard anything like it - LOVE LOVE LOVE!
So glad you guys are back on the DAN!
Like we never left 😉
That was the one and only Pretty Purdie on the drums! You done done it! You done hired the hitmaker!
For sure!
Steely Dan , great to see these reactions, of great music, I've listens to there music ,for over 45YEARS ,still as good today as yesteryear, my music🎹🎸🎵🎷🎺🎻🎵🎶🎹🎺🎸🎵🎶🎹🎷🎷🎤
We’re happy to join the experience, thanks Michael!
3:48 Lol, I can tell who the guitarist is in this couple, based on the facial expression when Larry Cartlon hit that pre Eddie Van Halen hammer on !!!
☺️thanks for watching Tony!
You won't be sorry. Extra groove. Extra funk.
Can’t wait!
Love your reaction to this. "Fusion" is a great description. The vocals are boom. It initially wasn't one of my favorites either but over the years I've grown to love it.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching!
You're right about Charlemagne. He united much of Europe, and was a hero. So Kid Charlemagne was a conquering hero, that is until LSD went out of style, and Cocaine was available on street corners "You are obsolete, look at all the white men on the street". White men were coke dealers.
Once again, SD is playing their masterful puzzle game: giving you the pieces, and challenging you to arrange them in a way that makes sense. Never telling us directly what's going on.
Thanks Sifa and Dan. I rewatch your reactions as comfort food. Just got done with The Caves of Altamira. :) Peace!
We appreciate you George!
@@SightAfterDark ♥
The whole song is pure genius with master musicians and no doubt it is fusion with making you constantly grooving . One of my favorite tunes!👍🏻❤️☮️🎤🎼🎹🎸All about a drug dealer!
Gotta love it!
This album will blow you out if the efin water, i feel its their best album!
Great song from a great album but my favorite from this album is definitely Green Earrings. Maybe one of the funkiest SD song
Looking forward to hearing it!
@@SightAfterDark you'll dig it. All reactors so far I've seen really like it and even some folks who like SD but hadn't heard Green Earrings are like how the hell haven't I heard this song before?
I like how this song is about the famous drug maker owsley and it says "the man is wise" cause the owl is wise right hahahaha....plus owlsley gets so famous as a drug cook that he has to worry if someone recognizes him like a celebrity ha I love this ironic glance back to the sixties and seventies...
The title track is fantastic, the whole album is a masterpiece.
We love it!
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) was a powerful king in what is now France. He was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier in the 400's A.D. . "He was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy Roman Emperor from 800. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and central Europe and was the first recognized emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire [2] The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded was known as the Carolingian Empire." (wikipedia) In other words, a major cultural figure. it may well refer to the character "Kid Galahad". in "Kid Galahad", a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer." (wikpedia again). (Galahad was a noble and pure knight at King Arthur's Round Table. Walter and Donald were big readers.
Thanks for the history!
This is one of the greatest amercan gruops ever! Becker and fagan are total geniuses!
At this porin you probably already know, but lyrics are a fictionalized take on Counterculture's most famous and reliable LSD manufacturer - Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Some of his most coveted late 1960s items include Owsley's Blue Cheer' and 'Owsley's White Lightening' , respectively containing a supposed 500µg and 275µg of pure LSD-25. The story describes the then and the now. First verse recapitulates the past, his 1960s glory, the Psychedelic Era. Second and third verses, the narrative has moved to 10 years later, it's now 1976, Psychedelia is gone, and 'Kid Charlemagne''s product is no longer in vogue. Hence the reference 'You are obsolete/Look at all the 'white men' on the street'. 'White Man' = Coke Dealer, Coke user. By the mid 1970s, Cocaine had become arguably the number one drug of choice, ubiquitous in the Disco Era as well as in other circuits. LSD had become a passé, 'Hippie thing' of the past.
That blue cheer sounds like a good time ;)
@@SightAfterDark Blue Cheer was also the name of a three-man California group who did a great version of Summertime Blues. ruclips.net/video/as1NcX31szs/видео.html
I was on tour Tapeing the Dead in Hamilton Ontario and asked my friend
Fran from the Greenpeace table if I could get a ride with her to the next show in Detroit.
She said ok but you have to behave because I’m also giving Bear a ride.
I swear ! This really happened.
What followed was one of my favorite memories in my life .
Bear drove and told stories the whole time.
Along the way we stopped , Bear got a room with 2 beds ,,, him in 1 ,,, Fran in the other ,,,,,,, and me ,,,,,, laying there,, absolutely basking in the fact ,the real true , genuine fact that I was fucking godamn sleeping on Owsley’s floor.
I remember thinking, will anyone ever get how totally great this is?
I have come full circle , I’m sleeping on Owsley’s floor !!!
And by the way for the record …. My Fathers name was Billy (William) my mothers name was Ethel and my only sibling’s name is Gail.
And I’ve been to Frank Zappa’s house 3 times!
Bear traveled with green coffee beans and a hot air roaster. He would set it up in the bathroom for the exhaust fan.
It was soo loud !!
The beans wood fly around in a big bottle and slowly turn brown . Then he would grind and make coffee.
I saw him fry steaks in the same bathroom on a hot plate !
He only ate meat.
At the hotel in Michigan
He asked me if I would pick up at the desk a package he was expecting.
I said ok and was on my way.
I wondered what I was picking up …..
It was a box of absolutely beautiful sterling silver skull and lightning bolt belt buckles !!
Damn I wish I had bought one!!!!!!!!
He did drive fast …………
Just a few real memories from meeting the man for about two days.
Thanks to Sight After Dark!!
And shout out too Brooklyn!!!!! And the Gowanus surf club!
The best LSD chemist from the US west coast. Kid Charlemagne was that man. The relation between King Charlemagne and the chemist is tricky but clever. King Charlemagne ruled from the first part of the 8th century as a reformist to convert people to Christianity. Iron-handed somewhat, but he envisioned that he would be a better ruler of the Franks. Germany, The Netherlands, and the surrounding area. King Charlemagne ruled this entire area of what we now call central and upper Europe.
Thanks for this!
There was no crack cocaine and probably no meth labs at the time. Until the advent of cocaine use in the early 1970's. the drug scene was "relatively" mellow, although use of "speed" amphetamines was common.
Thanks for breaking it down Grant!
No shit the drums were sick and Larry Carlton OMG.
3:50 Finger tapping...2 years before Eddie Van Halen.
🤯
I wish I had some of that Owsley Acid back in 1970 instead that Brooklyn Street garbage that always guaranteed a bummer or worse a bad trip!
The idea about there not being gas in the car is based on an apocryphal story that whe owsley was finally busted his car had run out of gas and the cops found in that way...
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Is there gas in the car?
Yes there's gas in the car!
🚘⛽️
I think the people down the hall know who ya are.
@@dwgale01 😄😆❤
That sentence showed up in my notifications and I was going, "Wha?"
"Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?"
That pretty well describes it, yeah.
Didn't even have anything to do with the cocaine that this song is written about.
How self-indulgent of me.
;)
You both know your Great right??? Yes it's true!!! Thanks for these reactions!!!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed!
Everyone raves about Larry Carlton's guitaring on Kid Charlemagne. But I think this his solo at he beginning of "Don't Take Me Alive" on that same album is far superior.
Great songs on this album!,🔥❤️
Looking forward to it!
Never heard a KC reaction where the amazing guitar was not mentioned 😮
Thanks for watching!
One thing for me about this song is how the high-hat pulls you along through the song....
Absolutely!
You are right. The Purdie's express takes you there.
Never heard a hi hat sound so crisp.
For real!
The story goes that Owsley Stanley was a direct descendent of King Charlemagne of Rome. Hence "Kid Charlemagne".
Thanks for the info Daniel!
Lsd was the drug. Tom wolf's book Electric koolaid acid test was the book . I met someone who attended the Acid test . LSD was legal till 1967 . The acid tests took place up till 1966 .
You can let something that opens minds be legal! That would be a travesty 😉
@@SightAfterDark I just thought they were mushrooms. How can a mushroom be illegal. Dear Ann Landers I'm confused
@@showshowthecloneclown8428 they’re just plants man!
@@SightAfterDark they should sell them at Shoprite. Then Shoprite would truly have the answer
If I could, I'd hit the love button.
'Charlemagne' was an Emperor of France who unified Western Europe in the late 8th century.
Haha we knew he unified something! 🤣
Larry Carlton, chuck Rainey, Bernard purdie, doesn't get any better
Bam !!!
I love The Who’s the Boss theme song with Mr. 335 playing.
Hope you get around to HAITIAN DIVORCE soon if you haven't already been there. Also from Royal Scam. It's my favorite SD track of all their albums. Which is saying a lot.
Will be doing that one soon! Thanks for watching Jackson!
Owsley Stanley
The dude was nicknamed Charlemagne because Fagen thought of him as the King of Acid. He was quite a guy - once he parachuted onto the stage of an outdoor concert and promptly started heaving hits of LSD to the crowd out of a satchel. ( I heard a first hand account ).
Sounds like quite a show!
Great reaction guys.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
The lyrics were great though. "Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl ., and you turned it on the world,. That's when you turned the world around." They're talking about a dude who manufactured LSD in his basement in the Bay Area. Yeh.
Thanks
Thank you!!
I heard a recent interview with Donald Fagen on NPR. He said Kayne West contacted him and Walter Becker asking to sample one of their songs. They said, "Hell, no." I don't know if it was this song or another one since I have no interest in Rap. West then wrote a nice handwritten letter asking again. They were moved. They said, "OK." DF said they are glad they did because they got SERIOUSLY paid. lol!
😆nice
Kid Charlemagne was a dealer back in the day
jay black of jay and the americans once referred to fagan and becker as the starkweather and manson of music
😆
"Kid Charlemagne” tells the story of the rise and fall of a San Francisco drug manufacturer. In a 2000 online chat with the BBC, Becker revealed that the lyrics were based on Owsley Stanley, a famous LSD chemist of the 1960s known professionally as Bear. If you take a closer look at the video the letters "LSD" are shown.
It astounds me that you mentioned the lyrics and vocals, but no mention of one of the top ten guitar solos in rock history by Larry Carlton.
Haha amazing guitar is kind of a given for Steely Dan at this point. Also when you’re doing one take videos, it’s sometimes hard to remember what we already said. Thanks for watching William!
Is there gas in the cah? Yes, there's gas in the cah.
:)
Do you understand how massive the guitar solo is?
Did u feel like jesus? : -)
n did u realise that u were a champion in their eyes? : -)
Awesome reaction, and song! Did you know that Kanye West sampled this song for “Champion” on his Graduation album?
Haha we did know but it somehow slipped our minds during the reaction. We were just too into SD!
is there gas in the car ... wonderful - thanks for reacts
Thanks for watching!
Not only does this song have one the best rock/pop guitar solos (actually 2) ever by the session musician genius, Larry Carlton, but did you catch Michael McDonald doing the little vocal riff just before the last chorus? He sang back-up on several steely Dan songs.
We didn’t, but thanks!
LSD is the drug. Kid Charlemagne is a nick name I believe for a chemist.
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If you're interested in lyrics, you guys need to react to some Rush, whose lyrics were mostly written by their legendary drummer/percussionist, Neil Peart. There's 40 years of fantastically-orchestrated music and truly deep lyrics to react to.
Thanks Mark. We know that Neil is a legend!
The King of LSD...
You guys hit what I've thought: Donald found his voice and sang with assurance on this album.
Absolutely! Thanks for watching Brian!
IMHO, this song gets infinitely better when you know the story behind it, because the lyrics are just awesome. Okay, so just some fill in, and I copy and pasted most of this from another reaction to this song (not all of it... much of it, though, so to others who think you've read all of this someplace else, you're right. You have).
As others have said, this was based loosely on Owsley Stanley who was, indeed, an LSD chemist, but not just ANY LSD chemist. Stanley's version of LSD left people feeling particularly amorous, and that launched "the Summer of Love" in 1967, and the "free love" hippie culture. It's postulated, were it not for Stanley's LSD, this would never have happened, hence the "crossed a diamond with a pearl"... he crossed something with LSD and ended up with LSD that was an aphrodisiac.
"Did you feel like Jesus?" Well, with everyone coming to him and telling him how they were brought together by him, and telling how great he was, he may just have. "Every A frame had your number on the wall" and "laced with kerosene, but yours was kitchen clean" are straight references to drug culture, the A frames being a type of house frequented in San Fran by those in the drug culture, and of course the latter verse talks about the quality of Stanley's product. Stanley made it, and did work late into the night, but I wouldn't say he stopped living on the edge. He wasn't rich and powerful, just cool, and in fact, I would say that's principal to the song that he DID live on the edge, which is why he'd go to LA on a dare (much stronger crackdown on dealers in LA than in SF). Day-glo freaks that used to paint the face referred to hippie culture, and how after the 60s, they all got jobs and started being normal people. "you are obsolete, look at all the white men in the street," as others have pointed out, refers to coke dealers as they pushed LSD out of the mainstream as the DoC.
Of course, the next verse kind of really gets into him being an outlaw... test tubes and the scale-- as you mentioned, tools used in producing drugs. Is there gas in the car? It's rumored Stanley was arrested because he had drugs in the trunk and ran out of gas.
Generally speaking you'd be right to not get too deep into they lyrics or trying to understand them, but IMO, to truly appreciate this particular song, you have to know the story behind it. FWIW, the vast majority of what I wrote is just paraphrasing Donald Fagen as he talked about the song, so it's not so much my opinion as it is the opinion of the guy who wrote the song. Glad you guys enjoyed it! Peace, my friends.
You’re right. The story does make the song much more powerful! Thank you for taking the time to spread your knowledge with us!
4:15 LSD
They didnt even mention the sacred solo from Larry.
We definitely did not, but should have! Thanks for watching John!
Larry Carletons solo got her to move a little
😆 that Larry!
LSD 'crossing the diamond with the pearl' Haight Ashbury high end acid
☺️thanks Dennis!
I can't add anything to what's already been said...again....Just a killer album..nice one guys
Thanks for watching Ken!
"The man is white, meaning switching from acid to cocaine.
Oh Larry
Larry Legend!
This is real music 🤘
You know it!
Nailed it. Fusion
Thanks for watching!
Owsley Stanley i think is his name.LSD maker and seller.
LSD King
Hi guy´s. Thanks, one of my absolute favorites! It will grow on you, I can tell you that. The lyrics are hilarious. BUT YOU FORGOT TO COMMENT THE GUITARS! I think that Donald Fagen once called this "the guitar album". Larry Carlton at his best with a solo that come up whenever there is a debate on the best guitar-solos ever
Haha must have been distracted by the awesome drums. The guitars are amazing and we can’t wait for the rest of this album!
Great I liked attempt to understand lyrics Charlemagne -
What'd you think of the bass playing...?
It was great!
Algorithmic 💕💕 hearts. 💕
🥰🥰😘
I've seen several reactions to this song and it's always fun when people recognize this as the source of the sample for Kanye's song 'Champion'. ruclips.net/video/L1SEEMkc-qw/видео.html Were you guys weren't familiar with the Kanye song?
We know the song, but I think we were too wrapped up in the instruments to realize at the time 😂
Acid fusion
Acid everywhere!
Aaaaaahhhhhh, such an ear orgasm. Kitchen Kleen. They are referring to an LSD dealer, btw. Clean acid w/o arsenic, etc.
Augustus Owsley Stanley 111 is not what most people believe him to be...he came as a scion from a powerful political family from Kentucky...His father was a government lawyer and grandfather was a federal senater after being Governor of Kentucky...He at the age of 15 spent 15 months in a psych hospital in Washington DC...Then without finishing high school was admitted into Virginia university...3.4 ave with minimum effort...Like me ...did no homework after I was ten and passed well...Then he leaves uni without finishing and gets a job as a test engineer on early Navaho cruise missiles....WHAT?..tHEN AT 19 HE JOINS THE MILITARY...The air force in the rocket propulsion division up near where Frank ZAPPA'S is living and where Franks dad is teaching at the Edwards air force base...That's white privilege NO...just privilege..I did 4 gaol sentences and I got no privilege.
Then he studies the Bolshoi ballet and in 1958 he is supporting himself as a dancer...no wonder they call him Charlemagne....This is all before he becomes a chemist...not forgetting he was sound engineer for grateful dead and then he become a jewellery designer and manufacturer....this guy is such a malleable spirit
I believe this guy is getting the hidden hand in doing these things but when the heat comes they drop him....CIA...like Timothy Leary..
Kid Charlemagne...respect for being so broad in his hobbies..he also design band gear with scully who designed mixers.
😆amazing!
Its the life at that time . Time and society, world drugs realization of we're you are at a moment involved or not we were subject to it more or less. Yes there's gas in the car. Clean up or. It was real then but maybe not now.
? Did Bear Stanley Know About Steely Dan " Kid Charlemagne " Was A Song About His Life ? Make A Call From Your A-Frame And Have Gas In The Car So You Can Go Get L S D.....
Maybe!
That lyric phrasing is straight out of Dylan...