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@newfuckingwave I agree. I'm neighbors with Dennis Dias' cousin, Tom and I got to meet Dennis and everything. Never knew he liked 18 wheelers so much.
@Playjex well that be where they got the name from! and these here yankees thought it come from some book. little did they know they's named after the big ol' steely!
the guy with the tambourine is working so hard to convince himself and everyone else that he is as equally important to the band as the other members - AND FAILING
Not to annoy anyone but there miming you can clearly see at 1:49 the bearded man says 'come on' but no sound comes out just a little thing that's all.
@simmonsdude this is no sync-job, sir, this is the mighty Dan in their pomp. Maybe even Roger Nicholls himself was on the desk, muting the vox mikes and banishing spill, long before he wrote the book on automated techniques.
"A rare Steely Dan performance from old grey whistle test (this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's)-Reelin' In The Years.Jeff Skunk Baxter on lead guitar"
Read carefully, what the up loader states. The episode of the programme was broadcast in 1978 and was showing an earlier performance from 73/4. Then as now the BBC was fond of repeats! LOL
I'm pretty sure this clip's from late 1974 or early 1975. I was in my 1st year at university then and remember watching it in the Hall of Residence TV room.
God, this lineup was so damn good (well, David Palmer was kinda useless, but whatever) that it kinda makes you sad Fagan and Becker were such control freaks and to think what they could have done together as time went on as a pure rock band.
@007Crusoe Heh. MM + Doobs = birth of "Yacht Rock". Musically that was a bad, bad time. And not just in music: top US TV shows then were "Laverne and Shirley" & "Three's Company".
I guess I can understand Baxter leaving SD because they wanted to do only studio work. But to play with MM?! Makes me wonder if he just grabbed the first opportunity that came around. Skunk, man...was touring so important that you had to play for a band fronted by MICHAEL McDONALD?! "What a fool believes", indeed!
I think we all need to get past this idea that music is dead. There are still plenty of talented musicians out there. There are just a lot of loud, awful ones drowning out their voices (and guitars and synthesizers and drums and whatever else). But the modern age of the internet gives us so much freedom to choose which musicians we want to invest in. This stuff is great, but don't give up on modern music.
Just met Jeff Baxter on the "Boston Legends" tour in Providence. Talked to him for about 10 minutes with my 16 year-old son...he's sooooo talented in soooooo many areas, now working for the Department of Defense. This vid is the essence of Skunk Baxter!!
Thank you, Dean for this primo video of very early Steely Dan!! It is really terrific to see them so early on, with the original members, and Skunk Baxter figuring in the Dan so much more! I am a huge" the Dan fan", and truly enjoy nearly exclusively Live Videos, almost anytime over "canned/ or just song" videos. I hope you get a lot more responses about THIS one, you definitely deserve it!! Thanks again!! It gets a mamouth thumbs up from me!!!
I stand by my previous comment.... Motley ass crew !.. and Fagan can probably smell whats cookin in my oven with that schnozzola , w/e the hell he is !
This is certainly not 1978, since all the band members here were gone by 1974. I suspect the uploader misread the "3" in "1973" and typed in "1978". '73 was when this song charted; that's when Skunk Baxter and Denny Dias and the others were Steely Dan members, and that's when they would have been on OGWT...not 5 years later when it was more likely to be disco, polyester, big collars and stack heels. I should know: I was around for both, and this is definitely 1973.
@hulldanfan Yes, I see poster's comment. I finally see what the deal is: at 0:32 a superscript says the tape is from WT in 1978, & obviously a rebroadcast. Bet this specific vid wasn't from WT but from a VH1 "Behind the Music" or such. BTM kind of stuff was always poorly researched. I bet a young researcher found this, saw the "1978" and wasn't old enough to realize 1978 was impossible for an original air date, and so never figured out it had to be a much later rebroadcast.
@spilsby88 Heh. Yep, Palmer really didn't bring much to the table, did he?
This should be seen by singers who can't play anything (tambourine doesn't count): you look stupid when you're not singing - so learn to play something. If Roger Daltrey had learned guitar, maybe Pete would have a shred of respect for him today. I think PT is cruel & wrong, but if singers want respect from their bandmates, they gotta play...or have pipes like Otis Redding or young Aretha.
@robert140602 No, I CAN'T imagine TW w/out RD - he's essential. My point was that RD had problems w/ his bandmates because he didn't play. Pete T even today is ugly about RD's talent. I've seen PT recently say that the main issue in TW was RD's lack of talent: "I mean John & Keith were absolute geniuses, and I was at least knocking on the door." His clear implication was that RD didn't deserve to be in a band with such "geniuses". PT still thinks that way, but hypocritically plays shows w/RD.
@jum1801 Yep —Yeah, I believe your intuition is spot-on —must've misread the 1973 date —winkofaneye00 couldn't have followed The Dan from their inception (maybe a youngster) —Otherwise they'd know there were just those two extensive tours for the original group —Another way you can tell this is the "Can't Buy a Thrill" tour is they still have David Palmer with them —He was gone after that initial tour...
@AwaTu Well, the uploader, winkofaneye00, explained it all:
"A rare Steely Dan performance from old grey whistle test (this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's)..." Oops! My mistake!
I remember the late-night rock shows that played in the 70's, "Midnight Special" and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert". But I rarely watched them then, & today I'm aghast to see what was freely available.
For a hoot, find an intro to "Rock Concert" & listen - DK had a voice made for silent movies.
@jum1801 I was fortunate to be back stage at the San Jose, CA leg of the "Pretzel Logic" tour, which, for me, was the kick-ass touring line-up for those initial 3 albums —Donald Fagen-piano/synth/vocals, Walter Becker-bass, Jeff Baxter-guitar, Denny Dias-guitar, Jim Hodder-drums, Jeff Porcaro-drums, Royce Jones- percussion/vocals and Michael McDonald-Wurlitzer/vocals —Well, not Becker. His strongest contribution is as a writer —Sorry —I've always found him to be weak as a player...
@AwaTu That's a pretty amazing "war story"! About Becker, regardless of his iffy performance skills, I've always thought his and Fagen's "anti-rockstar-looks" were part of the charm of SD. And of course the complex music & quirky /lyrics are fascinating. They really accomplished something - they introduced jazz, at least rock that was heavily jazz-influenced, to kids who would NEVER have willingly spent 10 seconds on any "straight jazz" artist, me included. They're "jazz subversives"!
@jum1801 ummm..... you apparently didn't notice that the up-loader said the video was recorded in the early 70s and "broadcast" in 1978. You really should have read the description before falsely accusing someone of being wrong.
@Umidunno1111 And you ignored all the many earlier posts about this. (If you still need help they're the ones between my original & this one.) How is it possible that you could have read my initial post, but not have seen the many posts which pointed out the very same thing. (Well, except they weren't rude & wrong.) And you also managed to overlook my replies to each as well.
Neither did I "accuse" anyone of anything. Except you for being an ignorant, arrogant, insufferable little turd.
@jum1801 nope, not 73. maybe 75, 75. there is a live clip from midnight special from 73 that is definitely a couple of years before this. but also not 78
Listend to their back catalogue over the past week or so, absolutely incredible. Great song writers and the music never goes where you expect. They should be recognised as one of the best bands ever. Like I said, incredible.
@behrbehrbehr - i remember this being broad cast and I think the 78 is proberly right. OGWT wasnt always up to date then at that time there was not a lot to film to broadcast.
@behrbehrbehr this was BRAODCAST in 78, I remeber it; not 73 as I didnt watch OGWYT then (too young). Back then they was not a lot of film for the beeb to use so im sure there were happy to show this even its was 5 years old.
every now and then i just play steely dan for about two weeks and play the lot even the solo stuff. and i think you are right. they really crafted songs and had a great musical perspective and it never sounded too self indulgent. aja, is peerless !
The Skunk is a genius who works with the Defense Dept. He is definitely a genius on guitar. This group has had the greatest musicians at one time or another play on there recordings. Lee Retinour, Larry Carlton and on and on it goes. I think this original band is the best lineup ever.
Now I know why some bands don't picture themselves on album covers. Have you ever seen such a motley crew? Serious case of the uglies going on here + fat and fur ! I've seen ski jump ramps smaller than Fagans nose! WTH wouldn't he get that fixed?
The guy on the tele is like the inventor of modern computer recording...after his stint in the Doobie brothers he went to work for the military and took a program designed for tracing the metal fatiuge in our jets...and put sound waves on the individual tracks...and from that protools was born....Jeff Skunk Baxter gave birth to it all.
In addition to Baxter becoming a defense analyst, Denny Dias (that ramrod straight bearded flower power dude playing lead guitar as well) became some sort of Computer Programmer in Los Angeles, designed Clipper or something.
Sorry, this is NOT 1978. Baxter had already left the band, as well as the other lead singer, never mind the fact that by 1978, they were not performing live anymore.
@ultrakool i guess i shoulda read the description. haha. masterful baxter guitar. genius musician and genius missile defense war monger. sorry bout that, jeff...we appreciate that you're on our side. lol
i do not think these guys are under rated.....ask 100 people over 25 or 30 and most all of them will say SD is great....or say...Wow, I did not know that song was them,,,love that tune!
@AresCassell Maybe by mainstream rocker guys who still think Bad Company was groundbreaking. These guys have been critics darlings for almost 40 years, they are in no quantifiable way underrated, but they deserve every accolade they have received.
Jeffy Baxter used to haggle with Jimi Hendrix at Manny's music store in NY. He sold Hendrix a white stratocaster prior to Jimi leaving for England....footnote: Manny's owner was David Lee Roth's uncle.
How much coke are those guys on?
zada000 1 week ago
@zada000 lots
chaosONjet 3 days ago
Thats wot I call musicians good old...... Old school
theblade66 2 weeks ago
Back in 78 I was 12, I love the old school music. Not like todays commercial shit!!!!!
theblade66 2 weeks ago
these guys were soooo coked out
gotta love this shit man!
bloykunker 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
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DDayRockBand 2 weeks ago
No way that is 1978. Palmer, Hodder, Baxter, and Diaz were long gone by then. Palmer was gone by '73.
MrOrthostice 3 weeks ago
@MrOrthostice it says performance early 70's, it was broadcast in 78
angeleyesmn76 2 weeks ago
funny looking back than very ugly butt my god it was very good music than
hto1971 3 weeks ago
Not bad!!!!
ryanpadres 1 month ago
This song plays so much on BBC Radio 2, that you could remember the lyrics in a day.
TheSlinkyGuyShow 1 month ago
i aint got nothing against them its a great song love it just thought i would say it...
simmonsdude 2 months ago
@simmonsdude mmmmmmmm good. them steely dan is some good old boys, mmm-hmm
newfuckingwave 1 month ago
@newfuckingwave I agree. I'm neighbors with Dennis Dias' cousin, Tom and I got to meet Dennis and everything. Never knew he liked 18 wheelers so much.
Playjex 1 month ago
@Playjex well that be where they got the name from! and these here yankees thought it come from some book. little did they know they's named after the big ol' steely!
newfuckingwave 1 month ago
@newfuckingwave Huh never knew that
Playjex 1 month ago
@Playjex a man's gotta know his dan. the dan, just like the south, WILL RISE AGAIN
newfuckingwave 1 month ago 5
the guy with the tambourine is working so hard to convince himself and everyone else that he is as equally important to the band as the other members - AND FAILING
newfuckingwave 2 months ago
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boagart 1 month ago
I stayed off work to watch this and never ever regreted it, fantastic.
mac21491 2 months ago
la maquina de hacer pajaros ????????????
lince7773 2 months ago
GREAT footage considering it was 1978.I was 12 at the time and loved it then and still do. ROCK ON!!!!!!!!
MrMegaFredzeppelin 2 months ago
Not to annoy anyone but there miming you can clearly see at 1:49 the bearded man says 'come on' but no sound comes out just a little thing that's all.
simmonsdude 3 months ago
@simmonsdude WHACHU SAY BOUT STEELY, BOY
newfuckingwave 2 months ago
@simmonsdude this is no sync-job, sir, this is the mighty Dan in their pomp. Maybe even Roger Nicholls himself was on the desk, muting the vox mikes and banishing spill, long before he wrote the book on automated techniques.
middenrat 2 months ago
"A rare Steely Dan performance from old grey whistle test (this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's)-Reelin' In The Years.Jeff Skunk Baxter on lead guitar"
Read carefully, what the up loader states. The episode of the programme was broadcast in 1978 and was showing an earlier performance from 73/4. Then as now the BBC was fond of repeats! LOL
MasterZatoichi 3 months ago
it's Denny Dias (DD)...
74pretzellogic 4 months ago
If I had been old enough to see these guys live in the early 70s I would have been one of those stoned dancers in the front row of the audience..
tonusaitis 4 months ago
What's the name of the burly, bearded lead guitarist?
theScytheofGod 4 months ago
the vocals in the verse remind me of thin lizzy
BlackDollarBills 4 months ago
Good performance from the original lineup. Walter Becker looks like Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson from Canned Heat without the beard...
groundhog713 5 months ago
Defo 73. jeff Baxter is now an ICBM expert advising the Pentagon.............
garylongden 5 months ago
I'm pretty sure this clip's from late 1974 or early 1975. I was in my 1st year at university then and remember watching it in the Hall of Residence TV room.
Loved it then, love it now.
MrHistorian123 5 months ago
Love how the mix here allows us to hear Denny's guitar. The Midnight Special performance, though cleaner, is a bit harsh.
onefig 6 months ago
Loved Denny Dias guitar stylings.
woodsy1405 6 months ago
This is '72-73. David Palmer's in the lineup, and he was gone by the 2nd album.
alexmortland 6 months ago
God, this lineup was so damn good (well, David Palmer was kinda useless, but whatever) that it kinda makes you sad Fagan and Becker were such control freaks and to think what they could have done together as time went on as a pure rock band.
GarbageMan550AM 6 months ago
@007Crusoe Heh. MM + Doobs = birth of "Yacht Rock". Musically that was a bad, bad time. And not just in music: top US TV shows then were "Laverne and Shirley" & "Three's Company".
I guess I can understand Baxter leaving SD because they wanted to do only studio work. But to play with MM?! Makes me wonder if he just grabbed the first opportunity that came around. Skunk, man...was touring so important that you had to play for a band fronted by MICHAEL McDONALD?! "What a fool believes", indeed!
jum1801 6 months ago
What a band
TheExStig 6 months ago
the antiheros of rock!
Whostock 7 months ago
Jesus Christ their harmonies are spot on.
cheifguggletram 7 months ago
@cheifguggletram Puts the Grateful Dead to extreme shame
looseele 7 months ago
Used to listen to these in the 70s, loved em, still do.
philhable 7 months ago
This is so great to see. Such rare video (live
Steely) from the 1970s. An earlier version on tube from a TV show with Bill Cosby hosting. What a trip.
sayleswendy 7 months ago
amazing musicians
joebstarsurfer 8 months ago
Great classic.
mangeldeth74 8 months ago
FFS people, let me copy and paste the description for you: "this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's"
cuntylishus 8 months ago
This one goes out to Jodii Christianson! Hope you're happy, bitch.
Echsentriq 8 months ago
bring back the 70's when we had music talent.
bondsee 9 months ago
wish i had hair like this, well hair in general i suppose.
fatgary68 9 months ago 4
@fatgary68 So do they, buddy. So do they.
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Good ol' Skunk. Jack of all trades.
petsounds75 9 months ago
I think we all need to get past this idea that music is dead. There are still plenty of talented musicians out there. There are just a lot of loud, awful ones drowning out their voices (and guitars and synthesizers and drums and whatever else). But the modern age of the internet gives us so much freedom to choose which musicians we want to invest in. This stuff is great, but don't give up on modern music.
LittleMissToriJane 9 months ago
lolol i like how that guy just stands there playing while the other guy just dances in front of him. 2:06
iamAwesomo1994 9 months ago
Great song... but they sound a little speedy, if you know what I mean
incarnazione 9 months ago
Just met Jeff Baxter on the "Boston Legends" tour in Providence. Talked to him for about 10 minutes with my 16 year-old son...he's sooooo talented in soooooo many areas, now working for the Department of Defense. This vid is the essence of Skunk Baxter!!
jimbo02816 9 months ago
i think it was probably shown in 1978 on whistle test they often showed old clips
MrHendrix1959 9 months ago
Thanks sooo much for posting this.
cohenfs 9 months ago
Travellin' back i time... And a nice trip it is too :)
youtubister 9 months ago
Is that becker...?
Naminator99 9 months ago
Wow, what a great live mix. Remember this was 1978!
songwrecrd 10 months ago
Thank you, Dean for this primo video of very early Steely Dan!! It is really terrific to see them so early on, with the original members, and Skunk Baxter figuring in the Dan so much more! I am a huge" the Dan fan", and truly enjoy nearly exclusively Live Videos, almost anytime over "canned/ or just song" videos. I hope you get a lot more responses about THIS one, you definitely deserve it!! Thanks again!! It gets a mamouth thumbs up from me!!!
lynnluvsfabfour58 10 months ago
Amazing to think that Denny Dias is now a computer programmer and the great Jeff "Skunk" Baxter chairs a console on Missle Defense!!
Rheems1 11 months ago
@Rheems1 HaHaHa —Yeah, that cracked me up about Skunk —I mean —WTF?????
AwaTu 11 months ago
Thank God for those days
captaincomputa 11 months ago
Not bad it all
jessee1970 11 months ago
sammy hagar!!!!
the guy in the red shirt!
k77jones 11 months ago
the best ugly band in the history of rock n' roll.
TheDogRibs 11 months ago
Who needs looks when you can play like that. Great stuff!
MrGreywhistletest 11 months ago
You Diamond! One of my absolute highlights of OGWT, (Rhiannon/Dolphins in there also)
SuperRothers 11 months ago
I THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HEAR HOW STEELY DAN WOULD SOUND WITH WALTER BECKER ON BASS AGAIN. SUCH A SUPER BAND.
david777ism 1 year ago
I stand by my previous comment.... Motley ass crew !.. and Fagan can probably smell whats cookin in my oven with that schnozzola , w/e the hell he is !
leonakita 1 year ago
Skunk Stands!!!!
TheTech1978 1 year ago
Thanks for posting great stuff !
The Skunk Baxter
zoo98 1 year ago
Summer of 1973 or there abouts..... Still in HS I was!
poikaa3 1 year ago
Everyone sings! Sweet. Denny Dias' clothing? ... not so sweet.
ifutureman 1 year ago
Is that guitar player the dude from the Doobie Brothers band?
ewachrome 1 year ago
@ewachrome Yes indeed. Skunk Baxter.
Jitpring 1 year ago
@Jitpring They don't make music like this anymore... Great musicians... great song writers... too bad.
ewachrome 1 year ago
all part of my teenage years !!.. wow dont time fly !!..
sortofsorted 1 year ago
Steely Dan Are What "The Guess Who" Could NEVER BE!!!
LordPrick 1 year ago
This is certainly not 1978, since all the band members here were gone by 1974. I suspect the uploader misread the "3" in "1973" and typed in "1978". '73 was when this song charted; that's when Skunk Baxter and Denny Dias and the others were Steely Dan members, and that's when they would have been on OGWT...not 5 years later when it was more likely to be disco, polyester, big collars and stack heels. I should know: I was around for both, and this is definitely 1973.
jum1801 1 year ago 47
@jum1801
The poster's comments say this was broadcast on 'Whistle Test' in 1978, but that the performance was early 70's
hulldanfan 1 year ago
@hulldanfan Yes, I see poster's comment. I finally see what the deal is: at 0:32 a superscript says the tape is from WT in 1978, & obviously a rebroadcast. Bet this specific vid wasn't from WT but from a VH1 "Behind the Music" or such. BTM kind of stuff was always poorly researched. I bet a young researcher found this, saw the "1978" and wasn't old enough to realize 1978 was impossible for an original air date, and so never figured out it had to be a much later rebroadcast.
jum1801 1 year ago
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fisherenterprises 11 months ago
@jum1801
Why does the little title logo thing read 1978 then at 00:32?
I know it's a mistake and it's obviously from '73, but it seems the people that put that title on the video years back also mistook it for '78.
Strange
degree7 11 months ago
@jum1801 Baxter was in the Doobie Brothers by 78.......on the Money!
EquitySports 11 months ago
@jum1801
Yes, and not only that but even David Palmer was still present, (what on earth were they thinking of??).
spilsby88 11 months ago
@spilsby88 Heh. Yep, Palmer really didn't bring much to the table, did he?
This should be seen by singers who can't play anything (tambourine doesn't count): you look stupid when you're not singing - so learn to play something. If Roger Daltrey had learned guitar, maybe Pete would have a shred of respect for him today. I think PT is cruel & wrong, but if singers want respect from their bandmates, they gotta play...or have pipes like Otis Redding or young Aretha.
jum1801 11 months ago
@jum1801 Can you SERIOUSLY imagine 'The Who',without Daltreys vocal?
Go back to bed,you prick,lol.
robert140602 11 months ago
@robert140602 No, I CAN'T imagine TW w/out RD - he's essential. My point was that RD had problems w/ his bandmates because he didn't play. Pete T even today is ugly about RD's talent. I've seen PT recently say that the main issue in TW was RD's lack of talent: "I mean John & Keith were absolute geniuses, and I was at least knocking on the door." His clear implication was that RD didn't deserve to be in a band with such "geniuses". PT still thinks that way, but hypocritically plays shows w/RD.
jum1801 11 months ago
@jum1801 Yep —Yeah, I believe your intuition is spot-on —must've misread the 1973 date —winkofaneye00 couldn't have followed The Dan from their inception (maybe a youngster) —Otherwise they'd know there were just those two extensive tours for the original group —Another way you can tell this is the "Can't Buy a Thrill" tour is they still have David Palmer with them —He was gone after that initial tour...
AwaTu 11 months ago
@AwaTu Well, the uploader, winkofaneye00, explained it all:
"A rare Steely Dan performance from old grey whistle test (this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's)..." Oops! My mistake!
I remember the late-night rock shows that played in the 70's, "Midnight Special" and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert". But I rarely watched them then, & today I'm aghast to see what was freely available.
For a hoot, find an intro to "Rock Concert" & listen - DK had a voice made for silent movies.
jum1801 11 months ago
@jum1801 I was fortunate to be back stage at the San Jose, CA leg of the "Pretzel Logic" tour, which, for me, was the kick-ass touring line-up for those initial 3 albums —Donald Fagen-piano/synth/vocals, Walter Becker-bass, Jeff Baxter-guitar, Denny Dias-guitar, Jim Hodder-drums, Jeff Porcaro-drums, Royce Jones- percussion/vocals and Michael McDonald-Wurlitzer/vocals —Well, not Becker. His strongest contribution is as a writer —Sorry —I've always found him to be weak as a player...
AwaTu 11 months ago
@AwaTu That's a pretty amazing "war story"! About Becker, regardless of his iffy performance skills, I've always thought his and Fagen's "anti-rockstar-looks" were part of the charm of SD. And of course the complex music & quirky /lyrics are fascinating. They really accomplished something - they introduced jazz, at least rock that was heavily jazz-influenced, to kids who would NEVER have willingly spent 10 seconds on any "straight jazz" artist, me included. They're "jazz subversives"!
jum1801 11 months ago
@jum1801 - to quote the uploader here: this episode broadcast-1978;performance is early 70's
bennevisplace 8 months ago
@bennevisplace Yeah, it took us awhile but we finally figured it out in some following posts/replies.
jum1801 8 months ago
@jum1801 if you read the uploader's description it says this episode was broadcast in 1978 but the performance is from the early '70s. great music...
mjfe2 8 months ago
@jum1801
You're correct about all of that..........It's '73.
jpcmd 8 months ago
@jum1801 read the description. same goes for everyone who thumb upped you like a lemming
ultrakool 8 months ago
@jum1801 ummm..... you apparently didn't notice that the up-loader said the video was recorded in the early 70s and "broadcast" in 1978. You really should have read the description before falsely accusing someone of being wrong.
Umidunno1111 7 months ago
@Umidunno1111 And you ignored all the many earlier posts about this. (If you still need help they're the ones between my original & this one.) How is it possible that you could have read my initial post, but not have seen the many posts which pointed out the very same thing. (Well, except they weren't rude & wrong.) And you also managed to overlook my replies to each as well.
Neither did I "accuse" anyone of anything. Except you for being an ignorant, arrogant, insufferable little turd.
jum1801 7 months ago
@jum1801 nope, not 73. maybe 75, 75. there is a live clip from midnight special from 73 that is definitely a couple of years before this. but also not 78
Peachteatube 6 months ago
@jum1801 What you have here is unbelievable songs, unbelievable musicianship and pretty damn good vocals too! tell me these times will come back ...
deFunkyMofo 5 months ago
@jum1801 i was gonna say.... wth are skunk , denny dias, and palmer doing in the dan in 1978? did i miss read all the credits on my records?
criket527 4 months ago
11 haters!!
chocolateman85006 1 year ago
hell yea i didnt know they were this good live
imdave1990 1 year ago
Skunk is so good! Great band!!
hoganesque 1 year ago
Listend to their back catalogue over the past week or so, absolutely incredible. Great song writers and the music never goes where you expect. They should be recognised as one of the best bands ever. Like I said, incredible.
behrbehrbehr 1 year ago 15
@behrbehrbehr - i remember this being broad cast and I think the 78 is proberly right. OGWT wasnt always up to date then at that time there was not a lot to film to broadcast.
branleighcomputers 8 months ago
@behrbehrbehr this was BRAODCAST in 78, I remeber it; not 73 as I didnt watch OGWYT then (too young). Back then they was not a lot of film for the beeb to use so im sure there were happy to show this even its was 5 years old.
branleighcomputers 8 months ago
@behrbehrbehr
every now and then i just play steely dan for about two weeks and play the lot even the solo stuff. and i think you are right. they really crafted songs and had a great musical perspective and it never sounded too self indulgent. aja, is peerless !
AMULET72 5 months ago
The Things You Think Are Useless, I Can't Undeerstand
612franklin 1 year ago
Everlasting
612franklin 1 year ago
Excellent band and have their act together magnificently...Keep reelin in the years and (do it again)Steely Dan!!!!!!Thanks for posting this :-)
kyteddy1 1 year ago
And that ladies and gentleman is what a tight band sounds like. EPIC
kcpd2050 1 year ago
Carl Wayne, Dave Clark and that dick on the tambourine... get what I mean? MFR
mensamoo 1 year ago
> They were never underrated, just not played enough on the Radio.
I guess you didn't live on Long Island in the 70's and 80's!
lesterawilson3 1 year ago
@lesterawilson3
yep Jokers Wild every Sat night..we covered Steely Dan among other great bands of the 70's...but this song has to be IMHO Steely Dan's best..
69fenderstrat 1 year ago
Fagen has the biggest nose in rock history. It should be enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
duncanstpt 1 year ago
@duncanstpt Two words...Geddy Lee...
muslimwhacker 1 year ago
@duncanstpt
Zappa had Fagen and Getty Lee beat- and I love em all!
Curdog 1 year ago
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ahhhhhh the good old days when music was real and musicians were ugly
kaftan68 1 year ago
pure genius right there. i'd take this over justin beiber any day
321jwalker 1 year ago
Ach... The memories... 16 with a spliff on the beach. Lol.
Katiepoosful 1 year ago
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Coked. thefuck. OUT.
traumabond 1 year ago
Coked. thefuck. OUT.
traumabond 1 year ago
The Skunk is a genius who works with the Defense Dept. He is definitely a genius on guitar. This group has had the greatest musicians at one time or another play on there recordings. Lee Retinour, Larry Carlton and on and on it goes. I think this original band is the best lineup ever.
skipper8257 1 year ago
skunk is great on this
cletistheslackjawedy 1 year ago
Now I know why some bands don't picture themselves on album covers. Have you ever seen such a motley crew? Serious case of the uglies going on here + fat and fur ! I've seen ski jump ramps smaller than Fagans nose! WTH wouldn't he get that fixed?
leonakita 1 year ago
@leonakita
Shut the hell and take a look in the mirror moron.
skipper8257 1 year ago
@leonakita Perhaps he doesn't get his nose fixed because it works fine the way it is and he doesn't care what you think about it.
soaringvulture 1 year ago
The guy on the tele is like the inventor of modern computer recording...after his stint in the Doobie brothers he went to work for the military and took a program designed for tracing the metal fatiuge in our jets...and put sound waves on the individual tracks...and from that protools was born....Jeff Skunk Baxter gave birth to it all.
deadendkid1968 1 year ago
THIS IS JAM !
rockyboyjan1999 1 year ago
groovy drums too...a proper shuffle.
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
Carl Wilson on guitar?
MELLSBAD 1 year ago
how much fun is this ~ old grey whistle test footage. so many great bands
alikatpro 1 year ago
... aaawhh, cuts out ...booo
Kimmypage44 1 year ago
i remember iwas 15 years old those years the happiest days of my life
666tampico 1 year ago
awesome footage......!!!!
fluffydolly 1 year ago
singers got freddie mercury face
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@EVERTONIC That's Donald Fagen!
slever2111 1 year ago
@slever2111 i know...it must be the teeth.
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
@slever2111 are you american?? I was being ironic mate!
EVERTONIC 1 year ago
It's funny their music is so mellow and jazzy but they rock out live like Led Zep!
choi4816 1 year ago
Surely even the Dan had got their har cut by '78?!
departments2006 1 year ago
the OGWT was certainly a fine piece of genuine cultural exchange in its day. Which reminds me, have I ever thanked Britain for Lulu and Petula Clark?
The cream of creation rises differently in different vats.
chernobylFarms 1 year ago
I met Jeff Baxter at the NAMM convention in Nashville, 2004. Cool guy!
CaptNemo100 1 year ago
Becker and Fagen are the most cerebral musicians on the face of the planet. They are perfection and always will be!
JazzPurist 1 year ago
@JazzPurist I think that compliment would go to Robert Fripp.
vf74tomcat 1 year ago
Becker and Fagen and the the most cerebral musicians I've ever heard. They are perfection!
JazzPurist 1 year ago
this is not 1978.. more like '72 or '73
nckey42 1 year ago
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is one of the greatest guitarists ever. Now he's a defense analyst in D.C. UNBELIEVALBE!!!
vf74tomcat 1 year ago
@vf74tomcat
In addition to Baxter becoming a defense analyst, Denny Dias (that ramrod straight bearded flower power dude playing lead guitar as well) became some sort of Computer Programmer in Los Angeles, designed Clipper or something.
I think there's a pattern here...
degree7 1 year ago
@degree7 Coult it be the drugs from the early to mid 70s? I like to think so.
vf74tomcat 1 year ago
ahhhhhh the good old days when music was real and musicians actually had talent........
mrhonkee 1 year ago 39
@mrhonkee You are so right my friend ! To much fake manufactured bullshit these days :(
liverdeise 1 year ago
@mrhonkee FUCKING RIGHT!!!!
PeakResetProductions 9 months ago
Sorry, this is NOT 1978. Baxter had already left the band, as well as the other lead singer, never mind the fact that by 1978, they were not performing live anymore.
gasaholic47 1 year ago
@gasaholic47 its the old grey whistle 1973
mrhonkee 1 year ago
OGWT? Skunk? wasn't he with the Doobies then. Besides, this was a hit in '72 not '78. Sourses check
ultrakool 1 year ago
@ultrakool i guess i shoulda read the description. haha. masterful baxter guitar. genius musician and genius missile defense war monger. sorry bout that, jeff...we appreciate that you're on our side. lol
ultrakool 1 year ago
the talent on that stage is epic
WHEREtheFUNK 1 year ago
there should be more footage of Steely Dan from 1972-4 than just this one, Do it Again, and My Old School. Too bad for us young dudes out there. :(
CrimsonKing73 1 year ago
I don't usually ...but in this case I will.
Hey ...whaddya mean "pass it"? ..."I only just got it"
Hellishcrusade 1 year ago
Awesome..
Drumr56 1 year ago
Man you can't top the Dan...........Not then not now.
thebarkingpumpkin 1 year ago
Love Steely Dan. Didn't appreciate them at the time. Aja is one of the best albums of all time!!!
staffl 1 year ago
It's weird, cause they look like hippies in those days playing this smooth jazz that Sinatra probably wished he could play.
mdonnelly1971 1 year ago
oh my god this is flawless
shelooksthroughme 1 year ago
The only thing about Steely Dan was that they never toured and played live during the 70's except for here. They were only a studio band.
I am not saying they are underrated.
dhz35 1 year ago
@dhz35 Overrated. Underrated: Emitt Rhodes.
SlimeTron5000 1 year ago
i do not think these guys are under rated.....ask 100 people over 25 or 30 and most all of them will say SD is great....or say...Wow, I did not know that song was them,,,love that tune!
gtrrobster 1 year ago
@AresCassell Maybe by mainstream rocker guys who still think Bad Company was groundbreaking. These guys have been critics darlings for almost 40 years, they are in no quantifiable way underrated, but they deserve every accolade they have received.
aleji0 1 year ago
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danthebassiste1234 1 year ago
What was David Palmer doing back with them in 1978?
charthead 1 year ago
@charthead - singing?
prescient8 1 year ago
Jeffy Baxter used to haggle with Jimi Hendrix at Manny's music store in NY. He sold Hendrix a white stratocaster prior to Jimi leaving for England....footnote: Manny's owner was David Lee Roth's uncle.
MarshallAmpMan 1 year ago
What a grand performance! What a set of grand guitarreros!
azche24ify 1 year ago
Jeff Baxtor is a good interview too, people need to know him (household name) He's cool still
MetallicBill 1 year ago
They were nev