"Deacon Blues" is just too long to respond to. It's a great song for chilling or driving for long distances, but to be on screen having people stare at you for such a long time would be a bit much.
The 1960s and 1970s AM and FM radio airwaves were a veritable cornucopia of musical styles and genres brought to us by a myriad of great bands and artists! You could hardly change the channel without finding a GREAT song! 👍
Aja is definitely great but we had it on a 8 track. 😂. We had a bunch of 8 tracks but I can only remember America’s Greatest Hits and Aja for some reason.
They started as a band I remember their 2nd tour still pretty much a band, then they started moving to using studio musicians both in studio and live. They've moved on now to mainly pro touring musicians and occasionally when available some of the studio musicians that were on the albums. But like most band there are the core members who wrote and produced most the music. Pretty much all bands since the earliest days members come and go and sometimes hired guns become "members". Look at the Rolling Stones still called a band, but they've a lot of people in and out of the band over the years, but as long as Jagger and Richards are still the key members they are a band. Steely Dan it was Fagan and Becker now it's just Fagen doing a mix of his solo work and old "Dan" songs the people want to hear. Band has a lot of meanings.
Jay & Amber, you'll absolutely LOVE their "Aja", "Deacon Blues" and "FM" !!!!! Thank you for doing this one !!! edit - Walter Becker on the guitar solos!
Steely Dan. The perfect fusion of rock, jazz and funk! Their adept ability at producing such iconic music is phenomenal! Ive never been disappointed. Enjoy.
Nobody fuses jazz, rock, and funk better than Steely Dan, what a class act! Fun fact: Chevy Chase, Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker played in the same college band named “The Leather Canary.” After Chevy left the band, the remaining two band members would go on to form Steely Dan. ✌️
Other Steely Dan you'd probably like would be, Black Cow, Deacon Blues, FM, Aja, Pretzel Logic, Caves of Altamira, Royal Scam, The Fez, Hey Nineteen, Time out of mind, Babylon sisters
Their long time keyboardist recently passed away. May he and Walter Becker rest in peace. I was supposed to see them last fall with The Eagles but Donald Fagen was recovering from illness. Fabulous band. Have loved them since the 70s as a child.
So glad you're getting into their later music. Next: Black Cow and Deacon Blues from the same album, and Hey Nineteen, Babylon Sisters and Glamour Profession from the Gaucho album. All of these have that same groovy/funky vibe!
Love that you love Steely Dan and are finally taking in a song from their Aja recording, which is so jazzy and still sounds fresh today. Next, you’ll have to listen to Deacon Blues from the same album, which I guarantee you’ll love.
IMHO, this album is their finest and that's saying a lot because all of their albums are great. Please check out the title track next. You'll be blown away.
Steely Dan's Aja album is one of the most perfect records ever made. Not a single hair (note) is out of place. It's everything you want music (art) to be. I have treasured it.
"Aja" is one of the greatest albums ever. Every song is a gem. "Josie" and the title track are my most favorite songs on top of favorites. I do agree with Amber though, that "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" is still my #1 Steely Dan song. 😄
Steely Dan is currently on tour with the Eagles. I saw them Monday night in concert!!! Steely Dan was the opening act. They performed for an hour. And yes, they played this song!!! What a fun coincidence for me to find you two reacting to a group that I saw in concert only a few days ago!!! 😂🎉❤
@@brendarogers1036 gonna have to give that a miss, I’m in London 😂.. I see that they will be in Manchester later in the year, 4 hrs away. I’m surprised they’re not doing Wembley 😞
Aja the track is my favourite. It’s a masterpiece of jazz rock music. The best musicians. Who knew a duet between a drummer and a saxophone would make such a great combo.
A number of years ago, I was at the international steel guitar convention in St Louis. I had watched a couple of guys playing "Realing in the Years" on steel and it was awesome. At a dinner party I sat and talked to one of the musicians for quite a while. After he left, my buddy said that it was cool that I got to talk to that guy. I asked who he was and he told me it was Dean Parks who played a lot of guitar for Stealy Dan. Dean played guitar on this song.
One of my favorite bands. Love all their music. And even though I've heard this song a gazillion times, enough to be sick of it, it's still my favorite Steely Dan tune.
Definitely one of my all-time favorite Steely Dan songs. Fantastic groove, and yet so simple...guitar, bass, drums, and some horns thrown in at the end.
The most perfectly recorded pop album of all time. The best of many dozens of studio players trying their hand at creating this incredible Jazz /blues/ rock /greasy / funky fusion. There is a documentary about the making of this famous record.
Good choice, picking "Josie". "Aja" is one of the greatest albums anyone ever produced. Next time, please try "Home at Last"; it is absolutely beautiful.
Have you listened to Peg or FM ? masterpieces by Steely Dan!!! FM has two versions with a beautiful guitar solo and then one with a nasty Sax solo both I recommend!!!
Good seeing the squad again... Josie was the pride of `77 disco lighted dance floor and Chuck Rainey slappin on that bass is that groove people, so get your hips on the floor I mean the disco floor, giddyup Squad
Groove, funk, vibe? You'll find lots of it on the Gaucho album. The song Glamour Profession has a killer bass line, Time Out of Mind is a gem. I think you already reacted to Hey Nineteen, if not you should. Love your work, guys.
I Saw the Dukes of September with Donald Fagen ,Micheal McDonald and Boz Scags and eight other musicians and back up singers . Me and my girlfriend left smiling . It was a feeling of being lucky enough to see it live and know how special it was
Man, this time in music. Steely Dan brought jazz ideals back to us. Weather Report was another as was Boz Scaggs. Great time be getting into music. Heavily influenced my choice to learn to play sax.
Aja is awesome !! One of the albums to listen to forever! I can't tell you many nights I listened to this w my headphones on after going out and being loaded. Laying in bed listening to this in high school... One of life's great treasures!! I love Steely Dan ! Thx
