STEELY DAN - Haitian Divorce | FIRST TIME REACTION 

You can never go wrong with Steely Dan. These guys are in a class by themselves. Their production is exquisite and their songs are interesting in so many ways. This song is one of my favorites and doesn’t get the attention I feel it deserves. Thanks for choosing it. Great reaction. 🌺✌️

The guitar effect is done with a talk box (the best users in the past - Peter Frampton, David Gilmour, Joe Walsh). The recording was done by Dean Parks, with the effects added later by Walter Becker. This is one of my absolute SD favorites.

Steely Dan is great. They're so unique. Combination of Soul/Funk/ and Jazz. They were just different, and such great lyrics.

Steely Dan definitely had great music

Great song, fantastic lyrics! LOVE this song.

One of the reasons Steely Dan is in my top 5!

They are one of a kind! Always get the very best musicians to record the amazing music they write. There are no bad Steely Dan songs!!

Awesome as always. They just have that special sound that gives us images of the story !

It also sure sounds to me like he's playing through a Wah pedal in addition to the talkbox. Totally funky song though, love it.

What I love about Steely Dan is all the different musical styles they incorporate in their sound. Just like all the great bands, you have to have your own sound. Great band, good reaction/analysis, peace.

Always one of my favorite songs from them. Thanks for sharing this!!

Dude you are going to love their catalog. Music, lyrics and composition. They have no genre. I guarantee you will become a Steely Dan fan for sure. You have heard many of their songs. Don't be hesitant,go down the rabbit hole,you will love it!!!❤😊

He shouts She bites is my fav line in the song The fact that they get studio musicians on their albums give them an elite sound Cause if u get called to play with them you gonna give your best

Yes, that was a guitar run through a voice box, made famous by Peter Frampton (Do You Feel Like We Do) and Joe Walsh (Rocky Mountain Way)

Your reaction method is really cool. I like the way you read the explanation of the song mixed with your comments. Most of the explanation is new to me, and interesting.

Never surprised by anything these guys do,everything is sheer genius!

i bought this album on the basis of this song right after i heard it for the first time. lucky for me, the entire album was fantastic.

Really love Fagens vocals in this one, man he's belting it out for real.

Hay tee is how it’s pronounced

You absolutely must do a deep dive on this album, SD's finest in my opinion. Every song unique, masterfully written and expertly performed. This song is a great example: funky, gritty groove with Fagen's perfect vocals and esoteric lyrics.

A true jazz/Rock fusion bands! None better😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Really enjoy your SD reactions. So many great songs and music. Been a SD fan forever. #1 in my book, don't try to interpret, just enjoy the ride.

Only Steely Dan could come up with a song about drinking Zombies from a Coconut Shell and the travails of a spoiled young woman acting on her father's advice for a quick divorce in Haiti to end her unhappy, crazy marriage. Donald Fagen's lyrics are always a fever dream of images. Steely Dan is a genre of its own.

Roger Troutman with the funk group, Zapp, also used the talk box. Check out the classic song, More Bounce to the Ounce. Great stuff!

That was 🔥🔥🔥

yes Larry Carlton was the Guitar Player on that, the Royal scam album still one of my Favorite albums.

Dean Parks played lead guitar and Walter altered it with a talk box to create this humourous, reggae piece which to me is unlike anything the Dan had created to this point. My take on the song is the reference to Papa which I allude to Francois Duvalier, the president of Haiti who was also known as 'Papa Doc'. Quicky divorces could be obtained in Carribean countries, aka Haiti, and many people ventured there to do just that.

Shawn, cool stuff. suggest: ..."Break it to them gently" by Burton Cummings....."Hello hooray" by Alice Cooper...."San Bernadino" by Christie...." Power to all our friends" by Cliff Richard

Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh used it, it's called a talk box.

My second favorite band

....the guitar had an effect called a 'talk box'....

How did they get their name? Google the story behind Steely Dan's name

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That talk box sounds a lot like what my granddad used to play, he called it a Jew's harp, but that's not cool, the better term is a mouth organ.

Did you say "Haitia"? C'mon.