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Your so right with Steely Dan. But as a drummer you still have to react to „Aja“. I promise you, you will not forget this song…
The impressive collection of great drummers is all over Steely Dan’s Aja. Bernard Purdie, Steve Gadd, Rick Marotta, just to name a select few…
YOU ARE SO RIGHT GADD'S DRUMMING ON AJA IS INCREDIBLE
Oh, Man - he hasn't hit Aja yet and the Steve Gadd drumming!?
Anything with that Purdie Shuffle is gold!
Yeah the staccato drum parts are some of the dopest ever
They got a name for the winners in the world, I want a name when I lose.... I love that line for some reason..
Steely Dan is an amazing group! Real musicians playing great music. Love this group. RIP WALTER BECKER.
Steely Dan ? The Best ever jazz rock band. The Best ever heard on planet earth.
Aja, the album this on is perfection from start to finish!
This song feels like wrapping yourself up in a soft warm blanket. Just so lush but subtle.
Steely Dan is probably the most unique, original band in rock....nobody sounds like them. Superior songwriting, production (these albums still sound AMAZING over 40 years after release) and musicianship. They used the very best studio musicians - the musicianship is OFF THE CHARTS!
Agreed. I've been researching Bad Singers and am fascinated that there is a long history of - well, if not 'bad', let's say 'very limited'. Jimmy Durante, was one, but there were others decades before, although I suspect without recording abilities, those were lost. And why do they get away with bad voices? "Because the song or the lyrics are so appealing - the vocal quality just isn't that important!" Heck, I think of Ringo Starr. When he's singing ACT NATURALLY, he's perfect for THAT song. LITTLE HELP, same thing. The White Album's GOODNIGHT - oh my, what a gorgeous lullabye with bad-voiced Ringo delivering beauty every line. And here we have Donald Fagan in that same camp... his vocals FIT his songs. Just amazing.
That entire album is a straight vibe .
Chod, you finally got to my favorite Steely Dan song!! Pete Christlieb - tenor saxophone
17 songs down, many to go! I'd recommend "Kid Charlemagne" and "Josie" next!
Yes, Kid Charlemagne is my theme song.......I relate
He hasn't done KID CHARLAMAGNE yet?!!?!?!??!/!/!?
There’s a couple of great live versions of Josie that Keith Carlock rips a fantastic drum solo in the tube. Don’t want to hijack but agree with those who really like Steely Dan. My favorite band of all time. Keep up the great work. Stay safe everyone.
Yes, smooth. Love the simple yet crisp drumming, and of course the sax solos and riffs sprinkled throughout the song.
I remember when the album 'Aja' which contains this song came out. I was in high school and my best friend played the album for me on his turntable. You knew that even though Steely Dan was in a class by themselves, this one was on a whole other level.
Funny, as I used to sell stereo equipment in College and Steely Dan Aja & Katy Lied were 2 of my fav's to audition the equipment.....back in the early to mid 80's.....I luv em even more now!
Pure gold every time, there is simply no one like them. I never want each song to end and need to play another to ward off the withdrawal symptoms
That's art! Everyone sees or hears something a little different. That's what makes art so beautiful. Steely Dan is definitely art!
This is an absolute vibe song.. I remember driving around on a summers sunset in the 70's with this song blasting as the sun setting and the warm breezes blow over you. The fact that he talks about playing sax and he's a free man
Fabulously track ,the entire album is pure quality , GREAT REACTION , PERFECTION🎶🎹🎺🎼🎵🎷🎺🎻🎸🎸🎶🎵🎹🎷🎷🔊😊
Love steely Dan ✌🏼😄❤️
When the Atomic Clock wants to see if it's on time, it checks with Bernard "Pretty" Purdie.
Great take Chod. Besides oozing groove and class, D Blues is a doctoral level class on chord extensions, outrageous structural techniques, and shared melodic voicing. But the filthy beauty of it is that it doesn't sound forced or contrived. It sounds fluid and spacious. Relaxed even. Every song on Aja is any other bands career high point. Keep digging. We'll keep watching.
@Ken Kitchen - Filthy Beauty - you probably just named my new fusion band! Let me know where to send the royalty checks, man! 🤘🏼😆
Can’t go wrong with the Dan, man!✌🏻
"Aja" is one of the greatest albums of all time.
The drummer on this track is Bernard Purdie, who played with James Brown, and was on so many hits including Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin. Hmm have you reacted to Rock Steady yet???
Bernard Purdy is a genius. Mind, he was not a humble one, but if you're truly good, do you have to be? I mean, not everyone was like the quiet, self-effacing Neil Peart.
@@kevinhyde6655 if he's not aware, I know he'd like to become aware!
When learning/playing the horn lines/trumpet for "Rock Steady" in a cover band back in the 70's I first realized that I really would rather be in the rhythm section!
Its always a good day when Steely Dan is on the menu
Given your jazz background, you really should hear "Aja", which is Steely Dan at their jazziest.
You can never go wrong with Steely Dan. Such a great band.
Always a pleasure to hear Steely Dan, especially Deacon Blues. Have you reacted to Doctor Wu? It is one of my favorites and seems to be overlooked. The whole Katy Lied album seems to be ignored. Incredible songs!
Yeesssss, Dr Wu please!!
This might be my favorite Steely Dan song. But there's so many to chose from.
One of my favorites! Best line in a song - "I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if i play too long!"
"This brother is free I'll be what I want to be!"
As if playing too long is such a sin.. I've heard it argued that an artist might better insist "sue me if I play it wrong," and I can't say that POV doesn't have merit... I consider it every time I enjoy DB.
You remind me of all the nicest, generous and inquisitive musicians I've known for nearly a lifetime. A true lover of music on the heart level. I can tell. We all make it back to Donald and Walter and a plethora of other modern deliverers of the mystical.
You’re right, music is a time warp that takes people back to times when you can reflect, collect, connect.
AJA has to be next. Or maybe save it til later. Its the peak of music 🎶
"Rikki don't lose that number," " Hey nineteen", "Josie", "FM"..... theyhave quite a few great songs
"Josie" is so subtly great!! The drums are amazing. The little fills and subtle beat changes...
I admire your depth. The best music is way beyond the notes. The notes seem to be the music but they aren't the music, yet they deliver the encoded ideas and feelings from human to human.Which is why we are here. Politics, science, psychology.....dead ends. Only music and art.
First kid, this is my favorite SD song
One of my top 5 'groups'. I put the entire box set and a few other discs on a flash drive so I could listen while I drive and at work.
Music is propelled along with movement from everyone. Walter, and Donald knew how to dynamically blend every sound to make each moment Special. Like "Green Earrings"
One of my two favorite Dan songs (the other is My Old School). Love the baritone sax on both.
Hey Chod! One of SD's best. Great song!🔈🔉🔊
According to Becker and Fagan, the song is essentially about a loser in life who is fantasizing about a better life for himself. There's a WSJ interview with them from a few years back that I'll link below. But here are probably the most relevant excerpts to the meaning of the song:
"Mr. Becker: The protagonist in “Deacon Blues” is a triple-L loser-an L-L-L Loser. It’s not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
Mr. Fagen: The concept of the “expanding man” that opens the song [“This is the day of the expanding man / That shape is my shade there where I used to stand”] may have been inspired by Alfred Bester’s “The Demolished Man.” Walter and I were major sci-fi fans. The guy in the song imagines himself ascending the levels of evolution, “expanding” his mind, his spiritual possibilities and his options in life.
Mr. Becker: His personal history didn’t look like much so we allowed him to explode and provided him with a map for some kind of future.
Mr. Fagen: Say a guy is living at home at his parents’ house in suburbia. One day, when he’s 31, he wakes up and decides he wants to change the way he struts his stuff.
Mr. Becker: Or he’s making a skylight for his room above the garage and when the hole is open he feels the vibes coming in and has an epiphany. Or he’s playing chess games against himself by making moves out of a book and cheating. A mystical thing takes place and he’s suddenly aware of his surroundings and life, and starts thinking about his options. The “fine line” we use in the song [“So useless to ask me why / Throw a kiss and say goodbye / I’ll make it this time / I’m ready to cross that fine line”] is the dividing line between being a loser and winner, at least according to his own code. He’s obviously tried to cross it before, without success."
Full article for anyone that's interested:
www.wsj.com/articles/how-steely-dan-created-deacon-blues-1441727645
@moonlitegram Thanks for the excellent article suggestion! It was absolutely amazing and insightful!!!
@@ericstaton6896 No problem. Glad you appreciated it as much as I did.
Love your comment about your daughter! My daughter and I have always had a strong connection and music is a huge part of it. I played Steely Dan and other classic artists, such as The Beatles, Chicago, Kansas and Heart on headphones on her mother’s stomach when she was pregnant, but in all actuality, it’s in the DNA. Music is our universal language and holds the keys to real peace and togetherness. It’s not just an old hippie ideal; it’s the truth! I really love this video!! Four thumbs up: One for you, one for me, and one each for our girls.
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
One of their best from my favorite Steely Dan album!
This song will be forever popular in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Finally the best Deacon Blues/Jazz/Rock tune IMO.
Aren’t they freakin’ great? I saw it on your face in the first 15 seconds of the song … you were there, you were digging it.
One of my all time fave songs. Great reaction!Love your air drums🥁🎶🎶❤️🤩✨✨✨
Steely Dan has laid down some KILLER funky grooves over the years. Check out the fabulous Bernard "pretty" Purdie on drums. If you don't know him you need to read up. He laid down some impossible drum work on many of The Dan's later hits.
This is Bernard btw. The legend himself !
Thank you 🙏 I was a young man back in the 60’s and 70’s. I love this band. Never saw them live. I believe they were a studio band exclusively? Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were so smooth and extremely talented! Thanks!
One of their best. Perfection. Is it about a Alabama church deacon who forsakes the strict confinements of his religion to become a musician? He says "I'll be what I want to be". Anyway, that was my take on it.
The Deacon of the title is a reference to the former football player Deacon Jones, because they liked his name. So nope, it's not about a church deacon.
@@robertfitterman3777 Yep. Guy wants to leave his square, ordered life and become a full-time blues musician, and give himself the the stage name, Deacon Blues.🎶😎✨✨🎶🎷
I never heard that take before. I though it was a loose interpretation on the life of Duke Ellington.
I always took this song as being about a guy who is simply going through the motions of life, making love to bored women and hitting the clubs and thinking he'll probably die in a drunk driving accident because he's a loser, saying the winners are like the Alabama Crimson Tide, while he is more like the Deacon blues, referring to Deacon Jones, a football player who was in the news a lot. They even said it is a song about a loser.
Donald Fagen that this is actually the only song that he wrote that is "remotely autobiographic".
This is one of my all-time favorite bands/ songs. You can't say enough about the musicianship or the songwriting. But how about the perfect match of the lyrics with Donald Fagan's sarcastic, jaded-sounding vocals? Definitely a winning combination!
Chod,i was 20 when the album Aja came out..played it everyday for awhile ..still dig it..Peg and Josie from Aja are also great...Kent
Chod , gotta love your reactions to Steely Dan music . Please keep it up.
I second the suggestions for you to react to the title track ‘ Aja ‘ from the album of the same name because it is simply a masterclass in jazz/fusion music with vocals .
But I reckon theres’s an ideal segue into ‘Aja’ . Knowing your penchant for in the pocket grooves , piano fills and brass arrangements , the laid back but compelling ‘ Home At Last ‘ you will just eat for breakfast . Please .
I can’t wait 👏👏
While I consider myself a hardcore rocker, I've always liked Steely Dan. I guess they are your bands favorite band...lol.
As a music mags-addicted teen I kept reading about SD's "subversive" lyrics and perverse elevator music, but everytime I heard them, it just sounded like bland AOR to my MBV-saturated ears. Eventually I bought the Aja lp for fifty cents at a used records store. That was round 2003. I ended up spinning it over and over all night long. I'd become a Steely Dan Man.
AOR & MBV - meaning please. Thanks ✌
@@lizbrown6943 Adult-oriented rock (akin to Middle of the Road 70's music); My Bloody Valentine (Irish noisemakers). Cheers!
@@lizbrown6943 album oriented rock I think
@@edwardcapobianco2975 Yeah that's also true.
This is an all time great! It sets a mood like no other. Both Donald and Walter grew up feeling alienated. This is an homage to the losers of the world who want a great nickname (Deacon Blues) like the winners ( Crimson Tide).
My favorite Steely Dan song. One of my fondest memories is laying on my living room floor (something I've been doing since I was about 16) and listening to this album on my headphones over and over and...
And there it is... a sax solo as sweet as you could ever dream of pulling off. That's the part i left out. People loved what I could pull off anyway...solo guitar and voice. Best of everything remaining to all who wish to, and can participate.
So sublime! Still lots of Steely Dan to check out..."Josie"..."Babylon Sisters"..."Reelin' In the Years"..."Black Friday"..."My Old School"..."Time Out of Mind"..."Blues Beach"..."Slang of Ages"..."Jack of Speed"..."Here At the Western World"..."Glamour Profession"...(more)
" I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long"-- in a nutshell, that lyric is the Steely Dan attitude/ethos/reason to be...
I can't believe you've not done the title track, "Aja", especially as a drummer. I guarantee you will be blown away by Steve Gadd.
The genius of Steely Dan is making people who like rock THINK they're a rock band while gently feeding them jazz.
It’s great watching you a musician watching and listening to these videos! I can’t help but laugh when you get caught up in the drum playing! Fantastic! Appreciate your Analysis of the music! Definitely medicine! Thanks man!👌💪❤️
Thank you for reacting to this song. I’m halfway through learning it on piano right now and it’s one of my favorite songs
Back to the Dan, the kings of the groove. That’s Bernard Purdie on drums, the king of the pockets. You can be the Prince until you inherit Bernard’s throne. 😂 Hoping your friend overcomes whatever he’s going through. 🙏
Steely Dan "Fire In The Hole"🔥
The song is an homage to their musical heroes. Jazz and Blues musicians. No one in particular. References to Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown.
After listening to SD since their beginning, I've come to the conclusion that I don't have a favorite song, or album from them. It's always whichever song I'm listening to at the moment.
@Hog - The surest sign of a great artist!
Appreciate your reaction to SD, I’m 67 and they are top tier for me.
One of my very favorite songs.
My two favorite bands each released songs pertaining to me... TOTO "Pamela" which is my name, and Steely Dan "Deacon Blues" which mentions my school! Roll Tide! Life's been good to me so far... 😁
Great song from a great band
Smmmmoooooooth … as always.
A prodigious musical unit of top tier studio junkies, all in a dizzying rotation, in search of the almost unachievable "perfect take" by the two co-founders standards is what you'll get off of any Stelly Dan track. Audiophiles use their music to test any high-quality headphone or speakers in the market. Those in the know, know what to expect from any of Donald Fagens intricate and quirky compositions and his deceased sidekick in musical mischief, Walter Becker.
@James Stark - You read my mind, man!
Just love your passion for the love of music. Another fantastic band, and one of their best for sure, but kinda hard to go wrong with Donald and his band.
Steely Dan is a musics genre all to themselves.
Steely Dan’s Aja might possibly feature the greatest collection of American drummers…Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie and Rick Marotta, to name a select few.
Love the Dan. Love Deacon Blues
Fagen and Becker were consummate perfectionists who would never put anything out that was "half-assed." They always chose the best musicians that fit their vision for the song. They specifically chose Pete Christlieb to play for this song because they felt that he was the best fit for it.
A couple more for you: 1972 Only a Fool Would Say That, Midnight Cruiser 1974 Any Major Dude, Pretzel Logic, 1975 Doctor Wu, Bad Sneakers, Black Friday 1976 The Fez, Haitian Divorce, Dont Take Me Alive
Jazz infused rock !!!!!! Gotta love it 😘🥰
Music IS food for the soul. Like great literature, a great song leads to different interpretation by different people. I loved watching you listen to a song that has been part of my life for decades. I can tell you were into it - the way you smile, sway, and almost intuitively move your hands in the drummer’s rhythm. Thanks, man. (I agree with some others here - If you haven’t done Kid Charlemagne yet, hit that one up.)
Chord recently read Steely Dan wrote this song about A broken musician. Love your reactions Chod. Be well
When I first head Deacon, man I knew it was from a special place.
I remember when this album came out! CLASSIC! This is what you call MUSIC!
My all time fav band 😎
Imho the 3rd best track on the album behind “ home at last” and the title track “AJA” the album is a masterpiece 👊
One of my favorites from the Aja album....Its so mournful
Sheer perfection. Again.
Nothing but Groove
Love this song but every time I hear it the first thing that I think is.ROLL TIDE ROLL
An ageless classic ❤️
I think it takes someone with a music background to truly appreciate Steely Dan music. To many, they are that elevator department store calming but good music played over some lousy speakers. People who really know and appreciate music are their biggest fans. Sure, there are exceptions but this is what I have learned about most SD fans. Chod, being a drummer, you MUST do the title track of the Aja album. Steve Gadd.
Great reaction man, thanks!
Bernard Purdie on drums.
Bernard pretty Purdy on drums on this track ..
Steely Dan....every other band's favorite band.
As a drummer you owe it to yourself to hear “ Picks and Pans “ off John Scofields “Still Warm “ cd .
This is a roommate song...my Roomie in the Army was this song...Howdy Clink!
We see you there with your air drum kit falling into that pocket!
Got to listen to Bernard Purdue on Babylon Sisters . Jeff Porcaro admits that is what he used for Rosanna !