Mine too! One of my favorite solos in their discog actually. Might not have the most weedle-eedle lee pyrotechnics as some of the Carlton/Baxter solos but it has so much feel and groove and just embodies the blues.
@@justicegusting2476 That just makes them even more ahead of the game. They're the best. There's no real debating it. To do so would be tantamount to saying that Mozart or Beethoven weren't "real."
That guy standing behind Walter and Donald in the middle deserved a lifetime achievement Grammy (he won a Grammy for best engineered record for Two Against Nature). Roger Nichols is the single greatest recording engineer of all time. Every stereo equipment store you walk into has Steely Dan on the turntable or in the CD machine to demonstrate systems. You can hear every single friggin' instrument, and there were a lot of them on those Dan albums.
Becker and Fagen(Steely Dan) were brilliant and made brilliant records. But with them , it was not just them, but the whole package, with Gary Katz as producer, Roger Nichols as Engineer and ALL of the brilliant musicians they employed that made the their records so good. Truly unique.
They’re literally one of the most famous classic rocks bands of all time. How does that constitute as “underrated”??? That’s like saying “William Faulkner is one of the most underrated novelists of all time in my opinion”- it makes no sense given the actual definition of the term.
Donald Fagan is a genius. Walter Becker was a genius (may he RIP). The soundtrack of my life, Steely Dan requires & clearly deserves a category of their own. 🙏♥️🇺🇲✌
@@IronMan-tk8uc they've been friends for a long time. Stevie Wonder called Donald when he dropped Nightfly to tell him about a static recording error he heard on the album.
@@hklinker you're right. It was 1977 when Aja was nominated for Album of the Year. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours came out on top, that also includes the Eagles' Hotel California as one of the nominees. It was a great year for music, i remember buying a lot of album that year including my favorite James Taylor album JT, also a nominee for for that year's best album.
Great to see Elliott Scheiner out there with the guys! Elliot is perhaps the greatest recordist, mastering engineer in the biz. I was lucky as a ten year old to be allowed into A&R Recording Studios back in the late 60's early seventies when Elliot was recording James Brown. Elliot's then beautiful wife Denise was my Dad's Executive assistant at his Commercial Production firm on 49th St. I consider myself very lucky to have witnessed Elliot at work up close.
Elliott Scheiner was the inspiration for the song Haitian Divorce - he had to take some time off the sessions of The Royal Scam to get a divorce in Haiti. I assume he was divorcing this Denise woman lol.
I was a teenager and watched this live, mad that “the Grammy’s were doing this just for Politics” (too look intelectual, cool, relevant). I knew of…but not too much about Steely Dan! So i decided to learn… Well, now as a 40 year old, I still despise the Grammy’s but booooooy, if I haven’t become the biggest Steely Dan fan, I’m certainly amongst the big ones… RIP Walter Becker.
Yeah because the MMLP is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop projects of all time, which influenced the majority of the 2000s to 2010s rap scene to innovate it to being one of the biggest genres of music today in the United States. Whereas, Two Against Nature is arguably Steel Dan's worst project, did nothing for the genre of rock, with minimal influence towards the future. Plus the MMLP is a certified diamond record, that sold 21 million copies in relation to the million copies that Steely Dan sold. So yeah Eminem fans have the right to be mad over Steely winning, as do Radiohead fans because Kid A was a record that was infinitely better than two against nature, that actually did something for rock in the 2000s. Two against nature is no aja I'm sorry.
@@jonathanviolaa5053 I think Kid A having such an influence is more so proof that mainstream is just really stupid/dumb. Was it more influential than 2 Against Nature? Yes. Was it as good? Subjective. Was it as intellectually stimulating? Hahahahahahaha.
@@semi-mojo I mean all music is subjective right but I dunno in comparison to other Steely Dan projects, its nowhere near his best work for me, Aja runs circles around it. Kid A and the MMLP are pinnacle Radiohead and Eminem, either one should've got it imo
I feel like this was a makeup grammy award because they couldn’t give it to them in the 70s for Aja with Rumors selling so many records, or for any of their other 70s albums thats were truly influential on music
With the possible exception of Jethro Tull's hard rock/heavy metal Grammy, this might be the most unpopular Grammy in the history of the awards. The Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for the same award. The irony is that Two Against Nature is not even the sixth best Steely Dan album.
I can understand why Eminem fans were upset, but when Marshall is 70 and accepting, let's be honest, honorary awards, I won't feel bad for the teenie boppers he beat.
SKYWOLF GBM 2000. The best album that year obviously was Kid A. Who cares about Grammys?! Really. If one hit album boy Eminem cared, he's a poseur. Should have scoffed at the notion and been rebellious about it like that persona he invented.
Feels more like a homage to Steely Dans legacy rather than acclaim to the album in particular. I will say I find Kid A and MMLP to be pretty bad. Kid A, Amnesiac, and TKoL Just never clicked and Eminem will forever be bad to me because the people I knew that worshipped him in middle and high school made it impossible for me to like him Edit: Radiohead grew on me greatly, I love those albums now, particularly Kid A. Eminem has become worse to my ear. A fair amount can change in a couple years and I’m pretty fickle
Let's fondly remember this veteran victory for a moment before going back to wishing that _Kid A_ by Radiohead or _The Marshall Mathers LP_ by Eminem had won this Grammy instead.
This was a huge mistake…the Grammy Awards panel chose Dan rather than M&M.. let’s be serious the top selling record of that year and that years triple award winner loses to the Dan..
@@harman6283 Kid A sold millions of digital and physical copies separately. Kid A also revolutionized several genres to come, including electronic, art rock, post-rock, experimental, etc. Steely Dan is irrelevant. they’re still a good band, but comparing one of their albums to Kid A is just stupid.
@clurgee4923 Steely Dan revolutionised Jazz Rock and were a huge influence on rock artists that came after. I'd say they're the most meticulous band ever to grace the earth. Their talent is just amazing and everybody who played on their songs was insanely talented. They deserved the Grammy for all the music they've brought to us since the early 70s. Just go and have a listen to 'The Royal Scam' album, particularly the tracks ' don't take me alive', 'haitian divorce' and 'kid Charlemagne' and come back to me.
@@clurgee4923 One thing is to say that Two Against Nature isn't one of Steely Dan's strongest albums. But from that to say that they're "irrelevant", that's simply erratic.
