Steely Dan - Bodhisattva - School of Rock 2017 AllStars Team 3 

1 year later: ALL of those kids nailed it. Frickin' amazing. They look like they had a blast.

And Denny Dias.

I liked watching her the best.

Larry Carlton would be proud. Well done young folks!

@@ptinlv8378 Check out the 2015 AllStar Team 2 playing My Old School

@@ptinlv8378 I do a dozen Steely Dan songs. I watch these kids and other SOC band to make sure I'm playing the songs right.

Not too bad but pretty sloppy. So not nailed, but we'll studied. Also remember this was a Baxter Dias duet. They established an absurdly high level of musicianship. I hope Becker and Fagen hear this ode to their brilliance.

@@ptinlv8378 Maybe Larry would, but this was Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias on the original.

By the way, check RU-vid for the Midnight Special channel. Burt Sugarman has people putting up classic songs including several really awesome Steely Dan ones.

@@MidWestConcertVideo2 I have indeed, and watching that show every Friday night in 1973 is the reason my wife and I drove 90 miles one-way to see Steely Dan at the U. of Toledo in April 1974. No internet back then, so we had no idea that we would also be introduced to future blue-eyed soul legend Michael McDonald as one of the band members that day. We call it the concert of our lives, because Becker & Fagen wouldn't tour again until August of 1993 (and never again with that lineup). We had to follow guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and McDonald over to The Doobie Brothers to get our live music fix for the rest of the decade.

Yes I keep noticing that and I’m just very impressed.

Nearly every AllStar show features a _Steely Dan_ song. Them and Zappa are two of the foundations of the program.

wow stuff indeed...

So happy that's the case. Becker & Fagen composed songs that sounded 10 years ahead of their time … still sound that way today.

I agree!

Until the next one

Here's another favorite School of Rock Steely Dan song. The lead guitarist on this one was 15 at the time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UjVj73_eBHw.html

If I had a band, I would hire *any* of these kids. Check out this take on _My Old School._ The lead guitarist was only 15 at the time and I think was actually *better* than Skunk. Baxter. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UjVj73_eBHw.html

@@MidWestConcertVideo2 I believe his name is Conner. He has mastered Larry Carlton! The song has 3 amazing lead breaks and he adds his own at the end. Amazing!

Two artists pretty much every School of Rock AllStar team will cover are Steely Dan and Frank Zappa.

The bigger the venue, the better the sound. This was shot in the back of a record store. The problem is loud guitar amps means that the guitar and bass rarely wind up in the main sound system, and that's the feed that I'm getting. The only option to get audio that's as good as my video would be to record every single channel, and that rarely is a possibility.

Is wonderfull

The timing doesn't really work out.

@@MidWestConcertVideo2 Hahahaha

Pretty much all of these young musicians are in their own bands. What the School of Rock provides to them is what young musicians most need - a place to practice, a time to practice, people to practice with, and most importantly, knowledgeable and dedicated teachers, all of whom are working musicians. They have to leave when they're 18, and by the time they reach this level, they could pretty much step into any band in town. Heck, I know one kid who beat 150 pros in the city of Chicago to get the job as the house drummer at the local production of the Blue Man Group. A musician's union gig at an age when most are lucky to get a job working the fry machine at Mickey D's.

I have no problem with Ed Sheeran. He proved to have a good sense of humor when he appeared in _Yesterday,_ and that goes a long way to redemption.

Nathaniel Smith Sorry. I have to mix them together, as the board feed I get is only stereo and is weak on guitar and bass.

They sometimes get over-excited.

@@MidWestConcertVideo2 but that's what makes professionals!

The other factor is that this was in a store which had a set closing time, and they were trying to get as much of their set in as possible.

@@MidWestConcertVideo2 doesn't matter......the music is what is important........its the biggest rookie mistake, speed up do to over excitement..

@@MidWestConcertVideo2 I'm a drummer.....its always the drummers fault, the drummers main job is tempo