steely dan .

just thought it was high time i paid tribute to
one of my all time favourite band.
it's not well known here in France and tho' i'm only 29,i was lucky my father has always been a freak of music and i took advantage of his huge collection of records.
among them;5 albums that changed my life forever.same band.at least the name was the same.
Steely dan!!!
simply outstanding stuff.Never heard any kind of music like that since.
some say sophisticated(too much!!??) i would just say Great in any ways.
i feel so lucky i got in touch with their sound at an early age although my friends at school would not quite understand what was so attractive about it.i felt like i had found the ultimate music.
words just can't describe the effect that music has on me.IMO,it's just a perfect blend of every popular styles of music in avery tasty and intelligent fashion.

and the musicians,man!!!those guys (Fagen and becker)would know exactly who they wanted to play on each track for the best result possible.
i feel fortunate i've been exposed to such talent through the best vehicle possible.MUSIC.
there's no better way to appreciate a musician's talent than when the music is great.


finally i got to see 'em on stage in Paris 4 years ago.what a thrill!!!
i even got to attend the soundcheck as my girlfriend at that time and i,snuck in the venue and sat down in the shadow so nobody would notice us.
great memories.


ok.tribute is paid.god bless da DAN.


btw:want to know what your favorite Dan's album is if you have any.
i love 'em all and just can't pick one or two out [img]redface.gif[/img]

i would consider it the ultimate achievement as a musician to play with those cats one day.hope they'll read this thread [img]wink.gif[/img]

Gotta love The Dan! My favorite albums of theirs are these:
Aja (worth the price for Steve Gadd on the title track alone! not to mention Purdie on "Home At Last")
Alive In America (Dennis is great on here, as is Peter Erskine, who is absolutely perfect on the tracks he plays. Just wish there were more P.E. tracks on it, but it's a great one to check out)
Countdown To Ecstasy
Can't Buy A Thrill
Katy Lied

Hey Drummaddix..

I would doubt you could find a drummer that didn't like Steely Dan in some shape or form. Monumental donation to modern music. There is a website that hosts their new CD. You have to see the video clip where the girl in the cab doesn't know what a "Steely Dan" means in england. One of those precious moments!!

http://www.repriserecords.com/steely...er/player.html

I love the Aja album, Goucho, the stuff Donald did for the movie "Heavy Metal", Katy Lied, Bodhisatvha live.... oh theres sooo many!!

I feel as you do... Steely has been one of my major influences thru the years and always wanted to be in a band with that "type" of influence. So lo and behold.... I auditioned for a band called "Tribeca" last week. Here's their website. Listen to Hueponica and 2 days after.

http://www.tribecamusic.net

The 1st time I heard the Material.... I turned to my girlfriend and said "Steely Dan!!"

Check out this other guy I'm going to be doing some local shows with.

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~courtenay/

I'll let you guess what I told my girlfriend this guy sounded like the 1st time I heard him?? Can you say Paul??

John

I love em all. Got to see Erskoman with them live in Saratoga, NY....favorites are In the News, Charlie Freak, Gaucho, Barrytown, Fire in the Hole...aw hell I like them all.

Wecklsmechanic- i watched that clip some time ago and just loved it.only those guys can come up with funny ideas like that.damn i love Donald Fagen.he's a genius to me.he's up there with P.Maccartney and S.wonder.such a huge contribution to music!!!
UNBELIEVABLE. [img]eek.gif[/img]

BTW:her's my favourite Dan's albums list:
-can't buy a thrill(fire in the hole,brooklyn)
-aja(home at last,peg,i got the news)
-katy lied(jeff kills every track!)
-countdown to ecstasy(bodhisattva,razor boy)
-royal scam(haitian divorce,kid charlemagne)
-two against nature(Vinnie!!at last.plays a straight groove on a very jazz fusion oriented song:West of hoolywood.)


have you guys watched "ME ,MYSELF and IRENE"???
very funny movie by the Farrelly bros. with JIM CARREY.most of the songs on the soundtrack are DAN's songs covered by various artists. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
great stuff!!
nice version of bodhissatva by The Brian Setzer Orchestra.
check it out if you haven't already. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Yeah I love Steely Dan, so much great music and drumming!

Can't believe how young Porcaro was when he did Katy Lied etc. Such mature playing.

Did anyone see them with Carlock or hear any boots of that tour?

Muphkin:yes,i got a bootleg with Keith.it's in Detroit if i remember well.
and Keith just NAILS it!!!
ok,it's not an allan holdsworth's gig,what i mean is that maybe a lot of drummers could play those songs,but make 'em groove is another ball game.
know what i mean guys! [img]wink.gif[/img]
And don't forget that when you sit in for these cats,you know that you MUST be good.i can hardly imagine what that must feel like to be the next drummer in the most amazing line of drummers ever.Those guys have worked with just the best among the best.noone is missing.VC,SG,JP,DC,PE,RH,RM,BP...
they've all been there man.
that has to be amazing to be sittin' in with the DAN'.no doubt about that.i could just do that gig
and die a happy man. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Keith Did a wonderfull job for Steely Dan.

Happens that i have the bootleg too from Detroit.

Keith doing FM

Allways nice to hear another person doing Jeff Porcaro grooves. he did a wonderfull job IMO.

Thanks for that Klemme!

Any chance of posting the other tracks?!?

if i knew how to do it,i would already have done it. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Don't think i have space to host the whole Bootleg, it's like a 15-16 track concert.

But any favorites you want to hear? Josie, Black Cow etc.?

My first introduction to Steely Dan was some Senior guys at my High School back then, who were listening to Gaslighting Abbey while playing Tablesoccer. I was sold forever, such a unique sound. So i started checking out my fathers record collection and picked up Aja. Man, fell in love with that record from the moment it touched the CD player - one of the best Steve Gadd recordings ever!.

Then alot of classmates started listening to Steely Dan, i put Josie on at a party and everyone just seemed loving it! ( Many of them listened to Hip-Hop those days ). The music is so Timeless everyone just loves their cachy tunes.

Love the DAN! Amen.

One of my favourite spins in the "shed" right now is "Cousin Dupree" off TAN. Just makes you smile all over grooving along with it. A real lift at the end of a hard day.

The TAN DVD is worth having too. Would be even better if I could find an easy way to skip all the asinine crap between tunes (see it once, and that's enough). Ricky Lawson is a joy on that one.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 17, 2004 09:21 AM: Message edited by: moosetication ]</font>

Aye the DVD rocks!

Ricky did one hell of a gig with SD.

And i love Cousin Dupree!

Yeah Klemme, if you've got the space, it'd be very cool to hear some more! Josie and Black Cow would be nice...!

Man, Carlock makes that tune feel goooooood.

THere's a bit of Phil Rudd in his playing, solid and steady.

MORE!!!

Moostication...you got that right. I've been playing that Cousin Dupree alot. The one Vinnie does is simply sick.....personally I think it is very difficult to play

Uploaded one more song tonight. Will upload the rest tomorrow.

Keith is just great on this one. Really Killing it! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Aja with Keith!

Quote:

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Originally posted by sjj123:
... Cousin Dupree ...personally I think it is very difficult to play

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Got that right. Coming out of the half-time into the verse can be train-wreck time. Coming in's only slightly easier. [img]eek.gif[/img]

Makes you warm all over when you get it right, though... [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Klemme, thanks for picking up the mp3 ball and running with it!

We gotta keep some more multimedia going here.

I LOVE that Gimme the Goods tune, just sick.

But I wonder if the 32nds were done after a big Tony Montana nose blast!

J/K, it was the 70's after all.

Man, that shit is fast.

Keith sounds GREAT on Aja.

That guy's got groove....his detractors should listen to to this.

Here's Two more!

This one you know! Great pocket by Keith on this one! Black Cow

The Second one here, is a tune they wrote for the tour, some kinda Tribute tune. They explain it very humorous at the end, the way, only Becker and Fagen would do [img]smile.gif[/img] .

The Steely Dan Show

Yeah...great cymbal work on Black Cow.

Got room for Green Earrings?

I'm Afraid they didn't do Green Earrings.

Here's the setlist:

01. Cubano Chant
02. Aja
03. Time Out of Mind
04. Godwhacker
05. Caves of Altamira
06. Black Cow
07. Babylon Sisters
08. Slang of Ages (WB vocals)
09. Peg
10. Home at Last

Disc Two:
01. Steely Dan Show
02. Janie Runaway >
Hey 19
03. Haitian Divorce
04. Things I Miss the Most
05. Parker's Band
06. Josie
07. Kid Charlemagne
08. Don't Take Me Alive
Encore:
09. My Old School
10. FM

Caves and DOn't take me alive.

Gotta hear those two, TIA!

Thanks for these Klemme!

Good call Benrand!

It is nice to share these with you [img]smile.gif[/img]

I'm gonna upload the last two songs you mentioneded tonight Benrand.

Great!

Thx, Klemme.

these are great, Klemme. thank you!

Yes, THX Klemme! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img]

Yeah, thanks for posting these, Klemme....very nice of you!! I am a HUGE Steely Dan fan.

I agree with benrand...those are two of my favorite tunes (well...I just think "Royal Scam" as an album is a masterpiece.)

Regarding Keith...I've heard a lot of good things about him, but I was having trouble digging his playing. After hearing him on these cuts, I have a few more thoughts:

On the plus side:

- He's got a nice drum sound...very full, deep, fat...perfect for Steely Dan tunes.

- He's got a relaxed feel.

On the disappointment side:

- Is it me, or does he slow down on all the tunes?!?!?! It's one thing to lay back in the pocket, but slowing down really takes something away. That's one thing that made Gadd so great...he kept a deep pocket, but with very little variation in the tempo.

- He didn't quite play some of the classic Steely Dan fills "right" (e.g. on "FM" and "Black Cow"). I know that many feel there is no "right" or "wrong" in an artistic situation, but there are some fills on the original records that fit the tune perfectly and became part of the song. You don't have to play them perfectly note-for-note, but you have to do justice to the original, otherwise to you detract from the tune (all IMHO, of course).

If I had to play that short drum break in the middle of "Vehicle" (Ides of March), I might spice it up a little or play it on different drums, but I would absolutely keep the shape of the original fill in tact. I mean...it's part of the song, for Pete's sake!!!

As long as we're on the topic, I was of fan of Ricky Lawson's playing on the YellowJackets stuff and the Anita Baker stuff, but he swung so stiff with Steely I would have bet he was sitting on a tack the whole time. Even some non-drummer/non-musician friends of mine who dig Steely Dan made the observation. He also "missed" some key fills and drum parts.

Certain bands and certain music really loses something when the parts are not true to the original. Steely Dan is one for example; Chicago is another...

All that said, Keith has played with Steely and Sting; Ricky has played with the YellowJackets, Michael Jackson, and Anita Baker...something I can't put on my resume. [img]redface.gif[/img]

Well said. [img]cool.gif[/img]

Agreed about Royal Scam, that's a killer album. Katy Lied is a definite fave of mine too.

Thanks a lot for posting these Klemme!

I think Keith sounds great.

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Hey Guys,

Black Cow with Ricky Lawson on drums.
If you talk about pocket...

http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=CD...2B094B360A7C3E

Peace.

I did not like Ricky or Dennis in the Steely drum chair, my all time fav live in that band was Peter Erskine, he just IMO captured the vibe/groove/swing nuances of the tunes.

Hi Guys,

I heard Peter with Steely Dan just on the Alive In America, 2 songs I think...
He does it very well, like say Donald, perfect.

Chambers play great, like only him can, but his sound for this music disturbing me, same thing for Ricky...
In my opinion they should adapt their sound to the music played...
In the same time they are surely hired because they are like they are so in Walter and Donald we trust...

I would like to see Steve Jordan with Steely Dan, it would be awesome.

Anyway...

It takes a mellow kind of drummer to play this music.

And even if Keith drags a bit, it still fits the music.

I've said before, he's got a very Marotta-ish groove and Marotta played WAAAAAAAAAYYYYY behind the beat.

"Sort of, kind of, a 'Porcaro feel' to it...er, Marotta, that is...sorta, kinda, that is..." [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 20, 2004 05:33 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

how about posting a few more tunes.....
Thanks!