i search the world, and i been in the pittsburgh zoo, and through my travels, my thoughts unravel , i belive it to be true, STEELY DAN LIVE is worth the ticket
I remember how this song blew me away when I first heard it. CLASSIC DAN progressions... UGLY!!!!!! "Don't Take Me Alive" HAS to be the BADDEST intro solo EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
This song should have been used for the 70's tv show, "The Rockford Files" The show would probably still be on. Those Hollywood knumbskulls always miss the mark, right?
Although they never reached the #`1 spot on the charts in the 20th Century, it was because the younger generation never understood music, but loved the Bee Gees..., but Steely Dan is also in the Rock & Roll Hall Fame.
@mainecoon1000: What the *&^% does that have to do with her being a back up singer? And while we're at it, why does she have to be 'the white girl?" If you've got to stoop to that level, why didn't you call her the "girl in the middle?" I bet you sit and watch "family guy" clips all day. Grow up.
this brings back so many memories as a kid growing up in the 70's & listening to the royal scam when my older bro got it. it blew everyone away then & it still does. this is my favourite song. too good!
I have a 25 year old son and 21 year old twin daughters---and they told me they want me to take them to a Steely Dan concert. I have officially succeeded as a parent !!
kids this what real musicians sound like, they actually play notes and know what a Gmaj9 is and how to play, of course you would never know that, we had great musics in the day, Steely Dan, Doobies, Led Zep, Yes, ELP, Allman Brothers, Santana, and the list goes on and on, What ta hell happened to music!!!!!
Just wonderful - and especially poignant to myself on a personal level. I was fortunate to go through the Caves of Altamira and see those fantastic ancient paintings before they closed it off to the public.
The beauty of this tune is that it's all for US.....The Dan Fans. If you are not a fan, you've never heard this masterpiece......and it's their loss, and our gain!
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Lady Gaga is much better than Steely Dan. They are some studio invention from some record exec. you can sell anything with advertisement. 5 years from now, noone will have have heard of steely dan.
@plinden What?! Lady Gaga is a second-rate, over-produced, prefab, no-talent hack! Shelf-life, TWO years, maybe! And even IF the Dan isn't being talked about five years from now, they've still been crushin' the smoothest sh*t in the galaxy for longer than f*ckin' Gaga's been alive. Thirty plus years, and still killin' it!
@plinden@plinden What?! Lady Gaga is a second-rate, over-produced, prefab, no-talent hack! Shelf-life, TWO years, maybe! And even IF the Dan isn't being talked about five years from now, they've still been crushin' the smoothest sh*t in the galaxy for longer than f*ckin' Gaga's been alive. Thirty plus years, and still killin' it!
I've loved this song since I first heard it. Loved Steely Dan since I was 3 or 4 and (as my mother tells me) used to go around the house singing their stuff. She also told me that this song was the perfect match for me. Go figure... guess she was right. -signed, soon to graduate with a degree in history and another in religious studies
@Sunflower0122Z Wow Cornelious Bumpus Excellent. I've been a fan also forever, 1972 until now. I was in the 9th grade when I heard reeling in the years. I was the only person of color at my school listening to Steely Dan. The Royal Scam is my Fav!!!!!
On the stone an ancient hand In a faded yellow-green Made alive a worldly wonder Often told but never seen Now and ever bound to labor On the sea and in the sky Every man and beast appeared A friend as real as I CHORUS: Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall When there wasn't even any Hollywood They heard the call And they wrote it on the wall For you and me we understood
Steely Dan is, and always has been, thinking-man's progressive music. These guys were always so far ahead of their time it was ridiculous. The 2nd album I ever bought was "Can't buy a Thrill". I own everything up to Gaucho, though I am not so enamored of the newer stuff that has come out -- it just seems a little lacking.
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Amen, amen, amen! It's good to know there are others who still appreciate the great music of the past that completely overshadows the nonsensical noise that is called music these days.
nah you're wrong there. I'm 20, I've seen Steely Dan three times, but The Roots, Common and Q-Tip are equally important for me. If you're saying all hip-hop can be dismissed, you either haven't really listened to it at all, or you're just being incredibly ignorant.
Im 20 and seen em 3 times too, all 3 best concerts ive been to, genius. The Roots Common and Q-Tip are real artists, I dont really consider that Hip-Hop since its fucking diluted with talentless hacks like lil' wayne anyone even remotely similar.
Hip Hop is a social system as well as different words put to very similar rhytyms. But to put hip hop (any hip hop) anywhere even close in excellence to Steely Dan's music is just a joke.
hip-hop may be massively culturally important as a form of entertainment, or poetry or even protest....but music, it ain't!
DO you even begin to realize the training and disclipline and education that these musician's went thru to be able to produce what you are hearing here?
They weren't jsut standing around, one guy doing a beat box and making up rhymes....music theory, hours of practice, class after class, performance after performance.
I couldn't agree with you more!!! All the play on the bus to school is rap/hiphop/r&b and its not only musically disgusting, but the lyrics are as well. Where has all the music like this gone?? Hell if I can afford to go to collage twice then I am definately going to a school for music. I want to change this mess our radio's gotten into.
In fact on a second listen - the mix is all to cock - listen to how high in the mix the piano and brass are! Drums and Vocals should be lifted - Bass and Guitar are ok - nice Sax
Well I meant more as in that his voice doesn't have a lot of power behind it, so it kind of falters before a large crowd, it's perfect on record and for smaller shows but he can't really fill a room with it, especially as he gets older, but that happens to most great singers I suppose.
The Dan always had these little jazz chord flourishes that always, like, seduced me. Like the chords when he sings "in the sea and in the sky". Too much man! Another irresistable moment is in "Black Friday" when he sings "when Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill". Only the Dan, man. Only the Dan.
Dennis Chambers is overated. Athletic ability has nothing to do with musical ability. I'll take Keith Carlock any day. If Keith was doing anything other than what Donald and Walter wanted, you can rest assured they would let him know. All Dennis "knows" about music involves playing on top of the beat at all times. To each his own, though.
I disagree with the carping comments here. With the mix set up like this I am hearing new harmonic subtlties in the song (I can play the original in my head, I know it so well). OK, Fagen is an old man now but that wispiness about the voice doesn't do it any harm. Recorded versions don't have to be definitive.
I had the very fortunate pleasure of meeting Cornelius Bumpus before he passed. It wasn't at a show or any music related event. He was sitting in his car - parked on 6th Avenue in NYC! Being a Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers fan, I recognized him. He was the most personable and down to earth cats you could ever meet and chat with. I was shocked when he said to me that he doesn't read music well. "... but that's not why they hired me" he said. I'm so glad our paths were able to cross at that time.
I missed the hi-hat. I can imagine how could it be if Bernard "Pretty" Purdie had put his touch on it, especilly on the chorus: -break- "they heard a call, and they wrote it on the wall..." =]
Isn't a great performance. Donald's voice sounds anemic, tenor sax tries to ruin the song with his busy solo & Keith Carlock is slow. I don't care about a pre-scheduled tempo for the song. I've often felt that Keith's mastery & familiarity w/ the songs is lacking at times. If he knew the music better, he would KNOW it's dragging. Keith is an outstanding drummer; much-much better than me, but listen to his take on songs vs. Dennis Chambers'. Pick up ALIVE IN AMERICA & hear a drummer that gets it!
you can have your opinion and i agree its a tad slow but walt and don would be the ones to tell him to take it at this speed... keith used to have a click machine that walt and don had prgrammed tempos in and he would take it at those temps. its kind of impressive if ya ask me because he consistantly keeps it at this slower tempo. good musicians can make a song feel good at any tempo. they hired keith to sound like keith!
Damn good call on this sax player...he just took a shit for a solo and it was a messy one. The solo on the album is so fucking emotional.. and glorious at the same time.
I'll say this song, The Royal Scam, and Babylon Sisters would have to be my favorite Steely Dan tunes to listen to and play, from a drummer's stand point, the grooves to these songs are slammin! All Hail The Dan.
Re. the tempo of "Caves", Keith Carlock gets the tempo counts for each song from a click track at the Fagen/Becker spec'd beats per minute. He only uses it to get the count for the song.
Great band, but every clip I've seen of this tour leads me to the same conclusion: the tenor player is awful. His solos are just note-y, unmusical bullshit. Steely Dan always had great players on records, and should have a live guy that can pay homage to those recorded performances while still being himself. About 5 bad notes are in his solo, and it has no lyrical quality to it at all. I play drums in a wedding band, and regularly play with better sax players even at that level!
These guys suck. Please tape somebody who can play.... OH YEAH...you know these guys rule,,,,wake up!!! Steely Dan at the Beacon Theater...so great...Home At Last, Gaucho, ....oh yeah...just giving you a hard time... When is the concert at Hofstra???
i was fortunate enough to see these guys at the palms casino in vegas while on my vacation. a truly magnificent show, a memory to hold on to forever. a fantastic performance by the entire band, note perfect, beckers guitar was perfect, along with herington, and fagens vocals could squeeze tears from a rock. just the best band ever.
forget Aja....Royal Scam, dogs-bollocks to any right thinking music fan, best Dan album, or CD or download or whatever you muppets call music today...
Quite seriously, I love and respect Donald Fagen on so many levels. But I've got to ask, does he have a vision problem? What's with the dark glasses whenever he plays live? Is it just an affectation or is he really light sensitive? Many musicians are. Anybody know anything?
Love the dan totally awesome
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i search the world, and i been in the pittsburgh zoo, and through my travels, my thoughts unravel , i belive it to be true, STEELY DAN LIVE is worth the ticket
steelychas 3 months ago
Spectacular song by world class musicians! Cornelius Bumpus on sax... RIP
FTroop37F 4 months ago
The best band too ever take to the stage.
Goody612002 5 months ago
I remember how this song blew me away when I first heard it. CLASSIC DAN progressions... UGLY!!!!!! "Don't Take Me Alive" HAS to be the BADDEST intro solo EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
esauwilldie1 5 months ago
I like it alot! great musicians, great music!!
STEN3326 6 months ago
hey superfishman22 me to and I just brought the cd today and Im getting the actual album for the cover alone good album
batman66ism 6 months ago
Perfect performance of my favourite from that album.
melbomartin 6 months ago
My second favorite song. That "Royal Scam" album is the BEST!!!!! That's my favorite album. Damn, those guys are geniuses!
RTA6226 7 months ago
Walter fizzles out a little at the end of his solo...great performance tho..
doubleotwentyone 8 months ago
When I teach about the mesolithic era to my sixth graders, I play this song for them.
Great song.
davevanfunk 8 months ago 2
YEAHHHHHHHHH THE GOOD OLD DAYS.............MIRACULOUS AND CURATIVE SONG
teovenbar 8 months ago
This song should have been used for the 70's tv show, "The Rockford Files" The show would probably still be on. Those Hollywood knumbskulls always miss the mark, right?
SVinNJ 8 months ago
Although they never reached the #`1 spot on the charts in the 20th Century, it was because the younger generation never understood music, but loved the Bee Gees..., but Steely Dan is also in the Rock & Roll Hall Fame.
alrozz 9 months ago
the white girl is flat
mainecoon1000 9 months ago
@mainecoon1000: What the *&^% does that have to do with her being a back up singer? And while we're at it, why does she have to be 'the white girl?" If you've got to stoop to that level, why didn't you call her the "girl in the middle?" I bet you sit and watch "family guy" clips all day. Grow up.
MrSterlingforest 9 months ago
can i just say "on time"
hodgesbrad31 9 months ago
this brings back so many memories as a kid growing up in the 70's & listening to the royal scam when my older bro got it. it blew everyone away then & it still does. this is my favourite song. too good!
jorbv8 9 months ago
I get goosebumps every time I hear this song, even on repeat.
santsok 11 months ago
Maybe there best song.....next to "Sign in Stranger" LOL, my son is 16 and this is his favorite song, and I've already taken him to a "Dan" concert.
danglywang 11 months ago 2
Such a beautiful song and a history lesson too. Love it!
rosedarling11 11 months ago
I have a 25 year old son and 21 year old twin daughters---and they told me they want me to take them to a Steely Dan concert. I have officially succeeded as a parent !!
garwood34 11 months ago 2
Beautiful track . . . !
arthurmee 11 months ago
I never get tired of this song. I don't know how many hundreds of times i've listened to it and still here i am listening more!
DJBonseye 11 months ago
Moving and brings back memories!
daveynardo 1 year ago
kids this what real musicians sound like, they actually play notes and know what a Gmaj9 is and how to play, of course you would never know that, we had great musics in the day, Steely Dan, Doobies, Led Zep, Yes, ELP, Allman Brothers, Santana, and the list goes on and on, What ta hell happened to music!!!!!
gabriel4838 1 year ago 3
Its not that they are so great, its just that there's not much else out there to listen.
There's better music out there somewhere, but it hasn't been invented yet.
onecircle1 1 year ago
I dig the way they were teaching their own the truth in 1970.
shaswords 1 year ago
Oh shit they got Bumpus! Nice..and Carlock. Its a throw down.....
PlymouthVT 1 year ago 2
@PlymouthVT I just noticed that very cool.
nyrichiek 1 year ago
Just wonderful - and especially poignant to myself on a personal level. I was fortunate to go through the Caves of Altamira and see those fantastic ancient paintings before they closed it off to the public.
RoadNasty 1 year ago
My absolute favorite song of all time... no one does it like Don and Walt!
singinglawnchair 1 year ago
The beauty of this tune is that it's all for US.....The Dan Fans. If you are not a fan, you've never heard this masterpiece......and it's their loss, and our gain!
dlmaston 1 year ago
At 0:47 they had already DESTROYED any other pop artist ever. Imagine what comes after... THAT´S PERFECTION!
That´s The Dan!
colorado5a2 1 year ago
At 0:47 they had already DESTROYED any other pop artist ever.
That´s The Dan!
colorado5a2 1 year ago
powerful sax
cashea11able 1 year ago
That's it... I´m gettin´ high to this right now!
maluko2 1 year ago 4
song never makes the 'Best of" albums but John Denver can sing it on the acadamys -so its cool. like all Steelys - great track!
maukeman 1 year ago
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Lady Gaga is much better than Steely Dan. They are some studio invention from some record exec. you can sell anything with advertisement. 5 years from now, noone will have have heard of steely dan.
plinden 1 year ago
@plinden
that's what idiots lie you were saying 20 years ago!
randallcaster 1 year ago
@plinden What?! Lady Gaga is a second-rate, over-produced, prefab, no-talent hack! Shelf-life, TWO years, maybe! And even IF the Dan isn't being talked about five years from now, they've still been crushin' the smoothest sh*t in the galaxy for longer than f*ckin' Gaga's been alive. Thirty plus years, and still killin' it!
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@plinden @plinden What?! Lady Gaga is a second-rate, over-produced, prefab, no-talent hack! Shelf-life, TWO years, maybe! And even IF the Dan isn't being talked about five years from now, they've still been crushin' the smoothest sh*t in the galaxy for longer than f*ckin' Gaga's been alive. Thirty plus years, and still killin' it!
Eddiethesaint66 1 year ago
@plinden Nice try, Lady Gaga...
Linnehan13 1 year ago
357dubs - yes there's gas in the car.
MorganHillChristine 1 year ago
great!
aaronamccoy 1 year ago
The entire album is a lyrical masterpiece. "Is there gas in the car?"
357dubs 1 year ago
I've loved this song since I first heard it. Loved Steely Dan since I was 3 or 4 and (as my mother tells me) used to go around the house singing their stuff. She also told me that this song was the perfect match for me. Go figure... guess she was right. -signed, soon to graduate with a degree in history and another in religious studies
GalskapOgMagi 1 year ago
Great stuff!
750gto 1 year ago
The Royal Scam..my favorite SD album...
cranie4 1 year ago
I have been a fan since I first heard them in the early 70s still gives me chills to hear any song they do.
frecklesdk 1 year ago
Perfection!! Donald Fagen is an underrated musical genius...........
danglywang 1 year ago
R.I.P Mr. Bumpus....
stopthrm 1 year ago 2
Actually, nothing touches their studio versions, but it's great to see them play "LIVE", nonetheless!!!
aldofrodo 1 year ago
i was suppose to be there :-( but thanks for posting this!:-)
THRILLAKILLA187 1 year ago
Was this on "Can't Buy A Thrill"?
McQ109 1 year ago
The Dan just get better with age
rollo131 1 year ago
awesome, I'm just not to happy with the backup singers, vocals are a little weak and off tune here and there
mainecoon1000 1 year ago
great song!!!
FanOfSteelydan 1 year ago
y is donald wearing different clothes in some of these songs even though its the same concert?
kell1reilly2 1 year ago
fagen and becker are not human. they're incredible music robots from mars. and they rock.
keznihda 1 year ago 5
Is this song about Salvadore Dali?
kenjajesfeelit 1 year ago
Many of their tunes bring me back to summer nights memories during the college years.
MarkHessler1 1 year ago
Whenever I listen to this disc, I replay this song 5 or 6 times every time. Almost perfect.
SuperFishman22 1 year ago 23
Dude, I'm with you!
Aggromerchant 1 year ago
@SuperFishman22 Walt Weiskopf on sax.
MrYourekiddingme 10 months ago
my favorite song by them
footinmouthindustrys 2 years ago 5
look how hot that chick is at 1;05
wolp1 2 years ago 2
@wolp1 yep,carolyn leonhart,married and childr,someone is a very lucky man!
hartforp 2 years ago
The Perri version is AWESOME! It's hard to find tho! :)
innerlitephoto 2 years ago
Has anybody heard the vocal group Perri and their version of this song?
candelise 2 years ago
This stuff is so great. It use to be that a Steely Dan sighting was a rarity. They are part of my soul.
ubda1 2 years ago
The studio version is maybe their most "perfect' song. The sax solo is just flat out indcredible as is the rest of the horns chart
Sunflower0122Z 2 years ago 34
I'm with you there
pretorious700 1 year ago
@Sunflower0122Z Wow Cornelious Bumpus Excellent. I've been a fan also forever, 1972 until now. I was in the 9th grade when I heard reeling in the years. I was the only person of color at my school listening to Steely Dan. The Royal Scam is my Fav!!!!!
FanOfSteelydan 1 year ago 2
@FanOfSteelydan 7th grade for me - hooked for life.
seek beauty ....
artbychristine 1 year ago
@artbychristine Amen... gorgeous jazz rock fusion. not one Steely Dan song I'm not in love with.
JerichoDitch2 1 year ago
@Sunflower0122Z yeah that was a sick sax solo.
RenoRaider 1 year ago
@Sunflower0122Z yeah really! i think you hit the nail on the head that is a perfect song. Mind blowing
zabari 1 year ago
@Sunflower0122Z Indeed, Paul simon's "My old Town" has some kind of similar horn flavour attached to it . . .
HotelCaravelle7 8 months ago
@Sunflower0122Z I agree along with Deacon Blues, the Caves of Altamira are among the best two of SD archetypal tunes.
therealrapantaleo 5 months ago
carlospc, thanks a lot for posting these awesome videos.
kagayanongdako 2 years ago 5
wow.....this just sent me down a long highway, very nice.
whoof1 2 years ago
godbluffvdgg 2 years ago
God I love this tune...just superb.
RoadNasty 2 years ago
I was at that Memphis show at Shelby Farms. By far the best concert that wasn't by a jazz band that I've ever attended.
starwriter23 2 years ago
Tough-ass tune this one. One of my favs by them!
cfibb 2 years ago 2
Still wonderful.Even though i commented on graffiti many times before an made some people read through and concidering the lyrics a second time.
dogofman 2 years ago
no kiddin'
went with my old man, his bird and my sisters and I had the best time of my life. Left with a sore throat for all the cheering ^_^
SergeantJWhite 2 years ago
saw them in Birmingham a few months ago. Best gig I've ever been to.
SergeantJWhite 2 years ago
No kiddin?
checkthisjunkout 2 years ago
This was the tour when they were good. Last time I saw them not very good, .....road tired and poor sound.
onecircle1 2 years ago
Saw them in Memphis last Friday! They were incredible!!!
thorntreein 2 years ago
My favorite song by them.
PeterMayer 2 years ago
Mine too . Any Major Dude is a close second for me .
squabs217 2 years ago
Steely Dan is, and always has been, thinking-man's progressive music. These guys were always so far ahead of their time it was ridiculous. The 2nd album I ever bought was "Can't buy a Thrill". I own everything up to Gaucho, though I am not so enamored of the newer stuff that has come out -- it just seems a little lacking.
drumsnbass 2 years ago
There's some good cuts off of the last two cds actually
PeterMayer 2 years ago
the chorus in this song creams my jeans
emceeschwartz 2 years ago
everything else seems so dumb. this song is so good, it kind of makes me feel dumb.
aedecoster 2 years ago 3
Another of my all time faves. I believe John Klemmer played on the original.
cgptony11 2 years ago
Where did this man Donald Fagen come from? Such a brilliant, talented, sensitive, amazing, unique individual....marry me Don.
nanlovsbri 2 years ago 2
awesome
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music has no rules ;)
I listen jazz (a lot of...), death metal, rock, etc...
people are free to choose what kind of music they listen...
I disagree with your words "sjirk"...
peace!
bossajazzistico 2 years ago
Amen, amen, amen! It's good to know there are others who still appreciate the great music of the past that completely overshadows the nonsensical noise that is called music these days.
dmreeoogdaq 2 years ago 4
Surely you can't dismiss ALL hip-hop. It's massively culturally important as a genre of music.
Boggert 2 years ago
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tmcg888 2 years ago
Yes actually, I think you can dismiss ALL hippity- hop...
tmcg888 2 years ago
You are wrong then.
Boggert 2 years ago
nah you're wrong there. I'm 20, I've seen Steely Dan three times, but The Roots, Common and Q-Tip are equally important for me. If you're saying all hip-hop can be dismissed, you either haven't really listened to it at all, or you're just being incredibly ignorant.
Benjani7 2 years ago
Im 20 and seen em 3 times too, all 3 best concerts ive been to, genius. The Roots Common and Q-Tip are real artists, I dont really consider that Hip-Hop since its fucking diluted with talentless hacks like lil' wayne anyone even remotely similar.
prs421 2 years ago
Hip Hop is a social system as well as different words put to very similar rhytyms. But to put hip hop (any hip hop) anywhere even close in excellence to Steely Dan's music is just a joke.
atty1chgo 2 years ago
hip-hop may be massively culturally important as a form of entertainment, or poetry or even protest....but music, it ain't!
DO you even begin to realize the training and disclipline and education that these musician's went thru to be able to produce what you are hearing here?
They weren't jsut standing around, one guy doing a beat box and making up rhymes....music theory, hours of practice, class after class, performance after performance.
There's just no comparison.
SaxyDan54 2 years ago 3
I'll have to agree with you there. But of course hip-hop is still music, no matter how basic it sometimes is.
Boggert 2 years ago
and took class after class! lol!
SaxyDan54 2 years ago
haha. You bad man.
Boggert 2 years ago
I couldn't agree with you more!!! All the play on the bus to school is rap/hiphop/r&b and its not only musically disgusting, but the lyrics are as well. Where has all the music like this gone?? Hell if I can afford to go to collage twice then I am definately going to a school for music. I want to change this mess our radio's gotten into.
EliKilby 2 years ago
YOu do that ,man.
will4ward 2 years ago
these songs were made when there wasnt any hollyweed
YOOTUBEDOTCOM 2 years ago
just shut your dumbass mouth and admit you will never achieve this greatness...ever... really you know who you treki's are... go die,
mrkilljoy8 2 years ago 4
the great cornelius bumpus!!!! did he actually played on any of steely dan recordings?
brendonkas 2 years ago
Anyone know if they are going to play Ireland this summer, during their tour in Europe
iGaucho 2 years ago
sorry no only London ,b'ham and Glasgow,not even Manchester or Liverpool.
hartforp 2 years ago
I have loved them since 1973..always have and always will.
60smom54 2 years ago
almost sounds like the Buddy Rich Big Band at the start!! lol!!
billyconnearly 2 years ago
In fact on a second listen - the mix is all to cock - listen to how high in the mix the piano and brass are! Drums and Vocals should be lifted - Bass and Guitar are ok - nice Sax
billyconnearly 2 years ago
A wooly man without a face a beast without a name
chriswp289p 2 years ago 2
people are going to thumbs down this comment and I dont care,, but i think Fagen's voice live is weak...
burstmatress 2 years ago
I agree to be honest, it's much better in the studio.
aaciseric 2 years ago
His voice is the same - it's the sound engineer's problem - he should have Donald's vocals far higher in the mix and also better EQ
billyconnearly 2 years ago
Well I meant more as in that his voice doesn't have a lot of power behind it, so it kind of falters before a large crowd, it's perfect on record and for smaller shows but he can't really fill a room with it, especially as he gets older, but that happens to most great singers I suppose.
aaciseric 2 years ago
The Dan always had these little jazz chord flourishes that always, like, seduced me. Like the chords when he sings "in the sea and in the sky". Too much man! Another irresistable moment is in "Black Friday" when he sings "when Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill". Only the Dan, man. Only the Dan.
pazzensutra 2 years ago
easily one of my top 5 dan songs. one that i would never expect live. awesome performance!
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Dennis Chambers is overated. Athletic ability has nothing to do with musical ability. I'll take Keith Carlock any day. If Keith was doing anything other than what Donald and Walter wanted, you can rest assured they would let him know. All Dennis "knows" about music involves playing on top of the beat at all times. To each his own, though.
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Steakfinger 3 years ago
Smokin' Sax solo from Walt Weiskopf.... amazing player, as well as the others...
doedoe1 3 years ago
Other than the sax solo, I'd say this take of COA trumps the "Royal Scam" version.
spigelwii 3 years ago
I disagree with the carping comments here. With the mix set up like this I am hearing new harmonic subtlties in the song (I can play the original in my head, I know it so well). OK, Fagen is an old man now but that wispiness about the voice doesn't do it any harm. Recorded versions don't have to be definitive.
1234cottagedoor 3 years ago
man Carolyn Leonhart is so sexy. i set first row in atlanta right in front her tv or youtibe does her no justice
chriswp289p 3 years ago 2
rip Mr. Bumpus.
chriswp289p 3 years ago 2
I had the very fortunate pleasure of meeting Cornelius Bumpus before he passed. It wasn't at a show or any music related event. He was sitting in his car - parked on 6th Avenue in NYC! Being a Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers fan, I recognized him. He was the most personable and down to earth cats you could ever meet and chat with. I was shocked when he said to me that he doesn't read music well. "... but that's not why they hired me" he said. I'm so glad our paths were able to cross at that time.
PaulKerseysStepSon 2 years ago 5
Man that is great! I am envious!
chriswp289p 2 years ago 2
likewise!
bassalltheway 2 years ago
I missed the hi-hat. I can imagine how could it be if Bernard "Pretty" Purdie had put his touch on it, especilly on the chorus: -break- "they heard a call, and they wrote it on the wall..." =]
estrobosfrobous 3 years ago
My favorite song on Royal Scam!!!
bds1167 3 years ago 13
@bds1167
Mine as well.. Such a cool jam.
EbolaSandwich 1 year ago
Isn't a great performance. Donald's voice sounds anemic, tenor sax tries to ruin the song with his busy solo & Keith Carlock is slow. I don't care about a pre-scheduled tempo for the song. I've often felt that Keith's mastery & familiarity w/ the songs is lacking at times. If he knew the music better, he would KNOW it's dragging. Keith is an outstanding drummer; much-much better than me, but listen to his take on songs vs. Dennis Chambers'. Pick up ALIVE IN AMERICA & hear a drummer that gets it!
STIRKDAWG 3 years ago
you can have your opinion and i agree its a tad slow but walt and don would be the ones to tell him to take it at this speed... keith used to have a click machine that walt and don had prgrammed tempos in and he would take it at those temps. its kind of impressive if ya ask me because he consistantly keeps it at this slower tempo. good musicians can make a song feel good at any tempo. they hired keith to sound like keith!
ocdrumboy1 2 years ago 2
Damn good call on this sax player...he just took a shit for a solo and it was a messy one. The solo on the album is so fucking emotional.. and glorious at the same time.
PizzaToTheDome 3 years ago
I'll say this song, The Royal Scam, and Babylon Sisters would have to be my favorite Steely Dan tunes to listen to and play, from a drummer's stand point, the grooves to these songs are slammin! All Hail The Dan.
TJLethal21 3 years ago 4
Re. the tempo of "Caves", Keith Carlock gets the tempo counts for each song from a click track at the Fagen/Becker spec'd beats per minute. He only uses it to get the count for the song.
s3adog 3 years ago
Great band, but every clip I've seen of this tour leads me to the same conclusion: the tenor player is awful. His solos are just note-y, unmusical bullshit. Steely Dan always had great players on records, and should have a live guy that can pay homage to those recorded performances while still being himself. About 5 bad notes are in his solo, and it has no lyrical quality to it at all. I play drums in a wedding band, and regularly play with better sax players even at that level!
futilitymusic 3 years ago 2
i agree. less is more.
gregrocks90046 3 years ago 2
LOL -- funny comments...
That's why you only play in a wedding band.... hahaha!
Intsikanoy 3 years ago
That solo was awful.
STIRKDAWG 3 years ago
These guys suck. Please tape somebody who can play.... OH YEAH...you know these guys rule,,,,wake up!!! Steely Dan at the Beacon Theater...so great...Home At Last, Gaucho, ....oh yeah...just giving you a hard time... When is the concert at Hofstra???
patmcn 3 years ago
supercalafragalistick classicsteelydanis
hayleydoofus 3 years ago
one of my alltime favs
Digitalaudiodesign 3 years ago
one of the few touching SD songs to me, another being "Any World that I'm Welcome To"
jmillzz2 3 years ago
Does anyone know the names of the chorists?
Markelinov 3 years ago
Every time I see Cornelius I almost cry. I loved that cat.
godlessbob 3 years ago 3
does anyone else feel that he brought this in a tad too slow - dont get me wrong, this is just a comment, i aint slagging off keith in any way!
ImLesterTheNightfly 3 years ago
Okay, I recognize Fagen and Becker.Who are the other excellent musicians?
nofear39 3 years ago
i was fortunate enough to see these guys at the palms casino in vegas while on my vacation. a truly magnificent show, a memory to hold on to forever. a fantastic performance by the entire band, note perfect, beckers guitar was perfect, along with herington, and fagens vocals could squeeze tears from a rock. just the best band ever.
gedder 3 years ago 3
i love this song!!!
taariqtaariq 3 years ago
Kieth Carlock on drums look him up
cramnoj 3 years ago
forget Aja....Royal Scam, dogs-bollocks to any right thinking music fan, best Dan album, or CD or download or whatever you muppets call music today...
OhBloodyOhBloodah 3 years ago 2
amen to that, every track is great
LelandJohn 3 years ago
So right. i've been saying that to myself for years. From Kid Charlemagne tothe Royal Scam all top notch with one exception (The Fez - mediocre)
pjbsjb 3 years ago
See I like 'The Fez' and its disco loop feel. I could do without 'Don't Take me Alive' though... to each their own!
STIRKDAWG 3 years ago
"Don't take me alive" is a fan favorite....they closed the June 21st show in NYC with this song, and it probably couldn't have been a better pick.
playboyv12 3 years ago
giving Cavemen a good name....
SoundBiteJohnny 3 years ago
Weiskopf won the 1974 British Open in my universe, pal...although he may have been a beast to his caddy..?
SoundBiteJohnny 3 years ago
Weiskopf is a beast but I'm still partial to Chris Potter in the live bands!
votequimby08 3 years ago
Quite seriously, I love and respect Donald Fagen on so many levels. But I've got to ask, does he have a vision problem? What's with the dark glasses whenever he plays live? Is it just an affectation or is he really light sensitive? Many musicians are. Anybody know anything?
inkforhire 3 years ago
ever seen him without glasses? he's like the jim mcmahon of rock and roll....eyes too small for the head
irishintellguy 3 years ago
I think he's a big fan of Ray Charles.
Chublin2249 3 years ago
THANK YOU!!!! LOVE THIS
rbsj2008 3 years ago
Me, too. Just as good as the album cut flavor but with enough faithful dif