Steely Dan plays "Janie Runaway" and "Hey Nineteen" live

[garwood34]

Most underrated band of ALL TIME!!

[6StringSlinger51]

I know this is an old post, but I just heard my favorite band (Steely Dan of course), live and there never was and never will be a band even remotely nearing the greatness of this group. I myself am a working musician and doing my solo show, I create MIDI sequences for my backup stuff. I do lots of SD material but let me tell you...tackling any one of their songs is a month long project for sure. Steely Dan...just doesn't get any better than them.

[spacecoonass]

Ok, Fagen and Becker collectively are the Gods of Progressive Jazz. Anybody have a problem with that, come see me :)

[tyleryesta1]

Anybody find or know the chords to this one. Trying to transcribe it now but its just too hard. I know its a C7 ,Gm7, C7, G7, C7 to I think Dbmu, leading up to the chorus Eb7 Bm7 than its sounds like some kind of Slash chord.. E bass. It's driving me nuts cause I want this one bad. You can find most of their early stuff but not much of these record other than maybe Cousin Dupree.

[tyleryesta1]

The chorus seems like.. Eb7, Bm7 to A6/E, Bbm/Ab, E/B, A9, G, C7. Sounds right when I play along anyway.

[EDP8278]

Zero dislikes? Okay, y'all cool. lol

[chile1hot]

I have played for over thirty years, I get more people wanting to hear S.D. than any other. People dissing this music would be like cavemen trying to understand Emerson or Thoreau IF they could even read. 

[JazzPurist]

No one, I mean NO ONE has ever, ever compared to Steely Dan. This is one of my favorite songs because Donald Fagen says my name... Melanie! Besides, we share a birthday, January 10th. I LOVE ME SOME STEELY DAN!!! They just can't play ANYTHING badly!

[davethefed]

@JazzPurist Yep. Way before their time.

[kevinherbert]

We're 4tunate 2 c such a transformation in music attitude.....

[debris54]

whoa... Cornelius Bumpus (briefly)...! thanks for posting... these guys taught a generation to aim higher... the pinnacle of american pop/jazz/highbrow/lowbrow... unique

[AbiolaAbasi]

Those women singing background are just outstanding!

[yeyeresma]

like em... even before i appreciated music

[navaho56]

Outfuckinstandin' !

[fluffydolly]

gotta love janie......kool!!!!

[ecnirp319]

Nice tribute to Otis Redding, "Hey nineteen that's Otis Redding (Aretha Franklin), King of Soul, (Queen of Soul) 5:22

[seancreek1]

what can you say to two men who have influenced you musically for almost 40 years without it sounding mushy trite or simply inadequate. Living in the land of Oz I never ever expected them to tour down under, but they came here a year or two ago - superlative and all the other words that mean A+. So glad they reformed and began to tour again. Please come back to Australia!

[icebergbart216]

I hope I get to see these guys live!

[jmodmon]

Thanks throe68........ FaaarLeft: I like you attention to detail, really, but lighten up on the leather straps; Walter is tasty; and we should always remember that he played bass many times

[Markgr122]

@jmodmon -and all the guitar(rythm and lead) and bass on the studio version of FM.

[jmodmon2]

@Markgr122 --- Yep, good point, he is a phenomenal musician and he has left his mark on so much of the SD catalog.....he's got a great sense of humor too

[FaaarLeft]

When will Walter Becker stop playing that retarded half-whole diminished lick? He does it at 0:20 and in every solo he gets. Christ!!

[throe68]

He's been playing for over 40 years and has given us some magnificent music - he can play how he fucking pleases.

[davidfugel]

It's pretty damn hip if you ask me.

[tricieg]

cuervo gold and fine columbian...that's what I'm talking about....

[PGTZ1]

isnt that keith carlock on the drums?

[TShane0423]

yes. keith since 2003. maybe 2000?

[PGTZ1]

best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best!!!!  insane groove!!! great melodies, great lyrics!!!

[lucasbig]

all time favorite band!

[louiseduvee]

I'm in love with this video.

[SaxyDan54]

I think you're right!

The Colobian and teguila did go good together....especially if you hit a good Mexican restaurant afterwards when the munchies hit.

[throe68]

Brother...you hit that one on the head!

[YOOTUBEDOTCOM]

its the wrong notes played in the right way

[ThirdMother]

Ha ha, nice slip up! That's what you get into a different song all of a sudden. :D

[ccquarles]

It's wierd that he did that on the same song in another concert. It was the same mistake in the same place. I think he's cracking up about an old memory it brings or something. He's still the man.

[ThirdMother]

Lol, yeah probably. :D

I'm thinking of getting tickets when they play here, but it's about 70 euro. That's just a little too much for me. Concerttickets are through the roof right now.

[SaxyDan54]

It's just part of the show, as rehearsed. They'll do it everywhere on a given tour.

Different tours, different 'mistakes'.

Often confused with 'showmanship'!

Just enjoy it and go with the flow.

[paulestorey]

Herington's tele sqeezed through a Guytron amp make me want to put my guitar away and just watch and learn. Why don't these guys do a complete live DVD of everything not on "2 against nature"? I'd even pay real money!

[tradurbur]

Music don´t get better than this !!

Fantastic !!

[popsheba]

I love those guys I been a fan since 1972 & have all there records & now cd's & been to a few concerts and they are the best in the world BUT I've been writeing them for years like the Beatles say NO REPLY and like them a baby bommer a 1949er and like them 1967 was my favorite year I was eighteen

[BOYLEHTS24]

HEY NINETEEN ! :D

[sugahface]

sometimes he acts like he ether forgot the words of is tired of singing it...calm down everyone i live steely dan,,im just saying,,,,

[AXOU2203]

These tunes are obviously sublime but these versions a little bit leasy, listen too much to ZZ top, guys ?

[habyss]

A Steely Dan concert is akin to witnessing the passage of a single multiplex vehicle the size of a motorcade or convoy, its various segments comprising limousines, ice-cream wagons, hearses, lunch-carts, ambulances, black marias, and motorcycle outriders, all of it Rolls-grade and lacquered like a tropical beetle. The horns glint, as it rolls majestically past, splendid, a thing of legend, and utterly peculiar unto itself.

-William Gibson

[pizzalover2]

the Two Against Nature DVD version is better

[STIRKDAWG]

This is a bit slow. I worship all that they do but this performance is a bit lackluster. Horns are right there though. Keith Carlock is in the pocket as always but he could've made this song twice as good by pushing the tempo a bit.

[thesquonkstear]

I can't walk past Dean & Deluca without laughing out loud and reciting the lines from this song... (I love the backup singer's Operetta version here).

[pbyardh]

Jon Herrington is by far the best mimic of them all.

[votequimby08]

Walt is still a beast but he can't touch Chris Potter on this tune. If you don't agree check out the Two Against Nature video.

[stinkyred904]

What is wrong with you guys? I have posted before about this song - Hey Nineteen - and I am an educated mental health therapist - every time I read something so bad about the band or about this song in particular helps me understand the folks who are criticizing have bigger problems than what they think they are dissing. c'mon guys. This band is briliant.

[jakeol]

I completely agree!! thanks!

[Markgr122]

@stinkyred904 -Thank You

[CoreaKixx420]

@stinkyred904 Pal, I couldn't agree more. One of the most sophisticated jazzy-pop-rock bands of all time. These guys were always in the groove. The best session player's in the business were lining up to play with these guys, and be a part of producer Gary Katz's musical/sound wizardry in the studio. I.E. Steve Gadd, Jeff Porcaro, Wayne Shorter . I'll stop here. There wouldn't be room to continue. Thanx for the post buddy.

[MoltenGoodness]

@CoreaKixx420 funny you say that about Katz.  I have always wondered why their CDs sound awesome! There is such a huge difference between their CD and another group. The clarity, bass, everything! Know what i'm talking about??

[dleestan]

does anyone know how they came up with the name steely dan? it's so odd; my wife calls her favorite sex toy steely dan

[MrPigeon]

Steely Dan is a dildo in "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs.

[cryptsub]

Like you don't know. Piss taker!

[Chublin2249]

FTF

[opihipiker]

From and Edgar Rice Burrough novel...Kimo

[dleestan]

this sounds like a bad lounge band with jazz session men covering steely dan songs

im glad i didnt fly around the globe and risk my ass and fortune to go see this tour

[dleestan]

don's has a big scary walnut head

like dave letterman, but not quite as bad as newt gingrich tho He should just shave it so he can look like the martians in the twilight zone bt fucking w walt doesn't noodle on guitar, that is such a slam BSL shame on you

[dleestan]

what is with the distractingly heavy

vibrato from one of the background vocalists?

it sounds like shit

can someone tell her? doesn't don or walt hear it? everything else sounds great except that one thing Who has a friend? named Melode e e e e e e?

[Pitumisio]

And the fine Colombian was a metaphor for coke. Amen.

[popsheba]

I'm from Mich. and it's honor they put this video on and there live cd,from MIchigan I've been a fan since 1972 and have all there songs Fagen don't say why back in 67 man that was my favorited year they are the best in history but I wrote them through the years and no reply

[BSL0789]

Steely Dan is like really good spaghetti... Donald's got the sauce and meatballs while Walter does all the noodling

[eskimoposh]

Okay....it's official....

The BEST analogy of Steely Dan E-V-E-R!

Only true Dan fans will understand.

BSL0789, you just put the biggest smile on my face.

[dit076]

Holy shit. I second eskimoposh's comment. Dead on!

[jakeol]

By far and any standard the most intelligent observation concernig SD - the dryfucking critics - are non playing fools.

Im 54 and a session musician - and I know what it takes to play this kind of stuff.

[Rotwatcher]

Problem is that noodles != spaghetti. I get where you're coming from, though.

[drumsinger]

carlospc, Thanks so much for posting these. They bring great joy.

[canturgan]

You have good taste for a young 'un.

[mrrichardfeder]

10 minutes of pure joy. Thanks a million for posting it (& have a Ritz cracker, dude).

[sportschick1719]

RIP Cornelius Bumpus. Fagen and Becker are the greatest..

[cupid1d]

"Fine Columbian" refers to the excellent weed that was very popular around the time this song came out. Columbian Gold, coke followed quickly on it's heels. Awesome song, this is what music is supposed to sound like kids.

[cyberwags]

nice!....I was always told that "fine columbian" was a reference to a cigar. I have heard the coke reference before.....but not coffee(as from below)

[spritualdiary]

heee Nyvintage...what do you think..guervo gold means?...he he...

greetz...spirit

[nyvintage80]

i think he means Fine Colombian coffee not coke.

[kariocka1969]

nineteen,HEY,IT'S AMAZING,WONDERFUL.THE BEST SINGLE,ADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOORO,SE TRANSFORMOU NUM DIVISOR DE AGUAS NAMINHA VIDA!

[Benjani7]

i like carolyn leonhart

[stinkyred904]

I'll never tell. Never.

[ROBERT195911577]

You first wave boomers...like clinton...yea...i didnt inhale..puleese. You had fun, we got busted. You know the best thing about the 70's?.....THER'RE OVER. Nuf said. Someone asked on another vid why they named the band after a metalic steam powered didlo. As i said before, if you dont get that, you dont get Steely Dan. PERIOD.

[stinkyred904]

Nuh uh?? A metalic steam powered dildo? Oh how sad, and oh how happy I was back then. Its interesting that the younger group doesn't seem to get anything - no metaphors, no analogies. I mean, these songs are filled with some of the best lyrics....

[ROBERT195911577]

That's the point. Subtle. Disciplined. Slavish devotion to perfection. Artists, not performers, although they can perform. It is their ability to produce a product that is universal in its appeal, yet it speaks to each of us privately, making the experience personal, as if the songs were written just for you. Not "in your face". Notice they rarely sing about themselves.BTW, since you are a shrink, kids today suffer from helicopter parenting. Thats the prob.

[stinkyred904]

I just read one of the reviews of Aja, (the album), and the reviewer says that the name Steely Dan is derived from a sex toy in William Burrough's "Naked Lunch." Interesting.

[ROBERT195911577]

Yes. That is the point. So irreverant. Imagine how they have this life long joke on all who go around saying their name over and over never really knowing that they are saying the name of a dildo over and over. Ive said it over and over, people that dont get why they named their group after a metal dildo dont get Stelly Dan. PERIOD. The 2 smart kids in the back of the class who made fun of everyone and still got straight A's.

[rickmatousek]

man, you TOTALLY get these guys and where they're coming from, IMO. Nice to see/hear/read some posts from a fellow Steely lover who really appreciates what I believe, they are ,all about. Cool.

[stinkyred904]

I am 57 years old and a Woodstock alumna, and Hey Nineteen is my favorite song and favorite piece of music ever!!! I have a real hard time when I see the lines of 'the fine Columbian' - and I am a licensed psychotherapist!!!

[pythonfan1]

That's 'Retha Franklin? No! It's Otis Redding -- the king of soul! I love it!!!Ol' Don's at his sassiest -- never ceases to amaze!

[siggesigge1212]

This is so damn tight and original. Love it:D

[doedoe1]

Love the Harmonies in this track and the backup singers make it So good....

[sidobeef]

Who gets to spend their birthday in Spain? Possibly you.

[nsb318]

I love this song. Everytime I hear it I want to mix a cocktail, smoke a cigar and listen too this tune.

[monomerx001]

RIP Cornelius Bumpus.

also - they left the words in when the played here a month or two ago - "Hey nineteen...thats...THATS 'Reatha Franklin!"

[NYCBG]

Carlospc, thaaaaaaank you so much! Steely Dan should be mandatory listening for today's generation of hip-hoppers (sic!) rappers and all the other would-be musicians who can't play more than three chords in a song! There, I said it!

[Jazzguts]

Don't waste your time even mentioning those guys man,the only thing that's on their mind is "golden chains" and lady's in hot pants, they play NO chords at all,the word harmony has been forgotten, Musically back to the Stone Age,greets.

[humboldtmyche]

jANIE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY ;)

HUMBOLDTMYCHE

[rmo52]

In his defense, try the tour schedule logistics, the planes, the bus, hotels, gear failure, fatigue, continuous intesity of the gig nite after nite. All these guys and gals are huge troopers, bar none.

[JAZZ2571]

What happened to Fagen at the begining of Hey Nineteen. Did he choke on the word or something. I saw them for the first time on this tour, and he was flawless. I saw them three times this year and he was fucking up a lot of lyrics. Also at both Boston '07 shows Becker did the talking part and it was way strange.

[steveviscious89]

Haha....Fagan does indeed get a little tounge tied there. He's slipped a few times at a show I was fortunate enough to be at the front of the crowd for. Well I guess all we can say is that he too is human and capable of mistakes in a live situation....Steely Dan is really good....but no one's perfect....

[boerni1976]

Humans? Donald and Walter are from outerspace!

[logosthedestroyer]

They did that in Birmingham (UK) when I saw them in July.. gives some time for some quips you know, Don's a very funny guy and that kind of thing really made the show even better for me

[sserpent21]

Donald left words out of the show at Summerfest 07, and when the crowd starting singing along, he even pointed out to someone in the audience and said 'Retha Franklin thats right! Guess they do that at alot of shows.

[risnuff]

Love the seamless transition between both songs.

[Yaponchik78]

Cornelius Bumpus' solo at the end of Hey Nineteen is sublime. This is fantastic footage! Could you post more songs from this show?

[carlospc]

No problemo my friend. Watch this space.

[o1melloNADE]

we'll be waiting!

[rogersat]

Excellent ears, my friend. Mindblowing solo.