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Steely Dan — Kid Charlemagne
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kcar
Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 23:46
 
 Rooney wrote:


Wow...are you too young to remember Barry Manilow?  Now there's someone worth vomiting to.                       {#Puke}  
 

Barry Manilow. Always dreamt of taking him for some skeet shooting. No, Barry, you don't get a gun...

But don't forget Dan Hill with "Sometimes When We Touch": 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xnyHG96vY8 

Why Will Ferrell hasn't done a parody of that song is beyond me. If you can do an OTT cowbell for Blue Oyster Cult, you can break the evil spell of Dan Hill with laughter. 

I used to dislike Steely Dan but love 'em now. 

Dan Hill with lots of chest hair 


Bargamon
(In a good place)
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 14:56
 
 vicariance wrote:
Every time I have to turn off Radio Paradise because I notice that my speakers are producing music that is making my stomach turn, it's Steely Dan.  This band is just wildly so much worse than anything else that EVER plays on RP.  That so many of you dig it is a complete mystery to me.  His voice is bland and tired sounding.  The backup bass sounds like elevator music with gas.  It's just awful.
 

"4 out of 5 dentists recommend Trident gum"

Someone has to be the 5th that does not.

J_R
(Cuernavaca Morelos México)
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 14:42
 
{#Bananapiano}

OK

bachbeet
Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 21:57
 
Love the Dan!  Always used top studio musicians.

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 14:48
 
 vicariance wrote:
Every time I have to turn off Radio Paradise because I notice that my speakers are producing music that is making my stomach turn, it's Steely Dan.  This band is just wildly so much worse than anything else that EVER plays on RP.  That so many of you dig it is a complete mystery to me.  His voice is bland and tired sounding.  The backup bass sounds like elevator music with gas.  It's just awful.
 

Wow...are you too young to remember Barry Manilow?  Now there's someone worth vomiting to.                       {#Puke}  



mike_chouinard
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 13:27
 
 bobrk wrote:
Two 'Dans in one day. Awesome.
 
And from the same album. A nice surprise, though Aja is still my favourite.


Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 13:19
 
 bobrk wrote:
Two 'Dans in one day. Awesome.
 
Was thinking the exact same thing.....


vicariance
(awesome like a billion hot dogs)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 13:19
 
Every time I have to turn off Radio Paradise because I notice that my speakers are producing music that is making my stomach turn, it's Steely Dan.  This band is just wildly so much worse than anything else that EVER plays on RP.  That so many of you dig it is a complete mystery to me.  His voice is bland and tired sounding.  The backup bass sounds like elevator music with gas.  It's just awful.

bobrk
(Beautiful Downtown San Jose)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 13:18
 
Two 'Dans in one day. Awesome.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 13:17
 
 FrankMc wrote:
If you don't find any happiness in Skunk Baxter's work on lead guitar, you must spend a lot of time hitting the mute button.
  Love Skunk's work, but this is Larry Carlton. FWIW, Rolling Stone named this #80 in the top 100 guitar solos of all time.


intraear
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 13:16
 
I started really liking Steely Dan when I worked at a thrift store and we had to listen to oldies all day. Steely Dan is really hella bomb.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 07:41
 
 scrubbrush wrote:


i try to avoid negative comments, but i have to agree that i just don't get anything from Steely Dan, other than an urge to mute to speakers 
 

It is alright, admitting you have a problem is the first step.{#Yes} Please seek help, if not for yourself, then for those that love you.

Dave_Mack
(In your neighborhood)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 07:36
 
An all-time fave.  Just sooooo good from beginning to end.

electronicthroat
(South Carolina)
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 07:35
 
 scrubbrush wrote:


i try to avoid negative comments, but i have to agree that i just don't get anything from Steely Dan, other than an urge to mute to speakers 
 


I agree. Always disliked Steely Dan.

Bluey
Posted: May 16, 2011 - 07:34
 
Is that a Moog Synthesiser I can hear in there?

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 17:51
 
Start with "Countdown to Ecstasy" check it out from the library.

FrankMc
Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 17:50
 
If you don't find any happiness in Skunk Baxter's work on lead guitar, you must spend a lot of time hitting the mute button.

 scrubbrush wrote:


i try to avoid negative comments, but i have to agree that i just don't get anything from Steely Dan, other than an urge to mute to speakers 
 



JavaJones
(San Francisco, CA)
Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 17:50
 
I don't get SD either. I can hear that they're doing something "different" with their sound, and I get that other people think that difference is pleasing, unique, innovative. I find it almost atonal, at times even amelodic (perhaps I mean off-key, off-melody). Unpleasant in most cases.

scrubbrush
(Sea of Calm)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 12:48
 
 Balthazar wrote:
Same here, I find nothing interesting or pleasing in SD, have to mute them every time.

oilydwarf wrote:
Is there something wrong with me?  I find this painful, I would rather listen to silence!  Technically accomplished I'm sure but tuneless. Help me - someone please explain the appeal of SD!!!!
  
Not at all — my fingers reflexively mute just about all Steely Dan..........  Must be an acquired taste, one I would prefer not to sully my listening palate with!   (however I do enjoy "Do It Again" — probably because it's similarity to Santana)

 

i try to avoid negative comments, but i have to agree that i just don't get anything from Steely Dan, other than an urge to mute to speakers 

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 12:47
 
Love these historical ballads about daring figures from the olden days. Owsley, RIP
I could loop (and have) this Carlton solo an embarrassing number of times.


quesarah
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 12:43
 
R.I.P.   Bear

audiophelia
(Pennsylvania)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 06:50
 
No mistaking that awesome solo by Larry Carlton! So Smooooooth, So Cool!!!

Balthazar
(Ljubljana, SI)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 06:48
 
Same here, I find nothing interesting or pleasing in SD, have to mute them every time.

oilydwarf wrote:
Is there something wrong with me?  I find this painful, I would rather listen to silence!  Technically accomplished I'm sure but tuneless. Help me - someone please explain the appeal of SD!!!!
  
Not at all — my fingers reflexively mute just about all Steely Dan..........  Must be an acquired taste, one I would prefer not to sully my listening palate with!   (however I do enjoy "Do It Again" — probably because it's similarity to Santana)




whoopi1956
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 06:45
 
not from Pretzel Logic but rather The Royal Scam

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 06:45
 
 anisbet wrote:
did Walter Becker do that awesome guitar solo in the middle of this song? so sweet!
 
I think that was Larry Carlton.



hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 06:44
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
RIP Owsley!{#Cheers}
 
{#Cheers}


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 06:43
 
RIP Owsley!{#Cheers}

anisbet
(Sacramento)
Posted: Jan 10, 2011 - 15:28
 
did Walter Becker do that awesome guitar solo in the middle of this song? so sweet!

spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 06:41
 
I really dig that lead guitar in the middle.  Some of Steely Dan's music is too 'smooth', played too straight for my liking, somewhat akin to smooth jazz.  But not Kid Charlemagne.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 06:35
 
Poetry_Hound wrote:
One of the finest rock solos ever (both solos). Larry Carlton's playing is unbelievable. So tasty!
I'll play those solos over and over sometimes - inventive on a Miles Davis scale.


socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Aug 04, 2010 - 18:04
 
 oilydwarf wrote:
Is there something wrong with me?  I find this painful, I would rather listen to silence!  Technically accomplished I'm sure but tuneless. Help me - someone please explain the appeal of SD!!!!
 
Not at all — my fingers reflexively mute just about all Steely Dan..........  Must be an acquired taste, one I would prefer not to sully my listening palate with!   (however I do enjoy "Do It Again" — probably because it's similarity to Santana)


kurtster
(Area code 216)
Posted: Jul 03, 2010 - 21:09
 
 hippiechick wrote:
Owsley Stanley (b. Augustus Owsley Stanley III, January 19, 1935, also known as Owsley or Bear) was an underground LSD chemist, the first to produce large quantities of pure LSD. His total production is estimated at around half a kilogram of LSD, or roughly 5 million 100-microgram "trips" of normal potency, although accounts vary widely. The widespread and low-cost (often given away free) availability of high-quality Owsley LSD in the San Francisco area in the mid-1960s may well have been indispensable for the emergence of the hippie movement during the Summer of Love in the Haight-Ashbury area, which one historian of that movement, Charles Perry, has described as "one big LSD party" and which has had continuing influence to this day in American society in terms of increasing tolerance for alternative perspectives and lifestyles. Owsley was also an accomplished sound engineer, and the longtime soundman for seminal psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead; the band's well-known "dancing bear" icon derives from his nickname. He designed the first high-fidelity sound systems for rock music, culminating in the massive "Wall of Sound" electrical amplification system used by the Grateful Dead in their live shows, at the time a highly innovative feat of engineering<1>, and was involved with the founding of high-end musical instrument maker Alembic Inc and the pre-eminent concert sound equipment manufacturer Meyer Sound. The combination of his notoriety in the psychedelic scene and his reclusive tendencies (in part cultivated to confuse the authorities —-he avoided being photographed and refused to be interviewed for many years) led to the perpetuation of many inaccurate tales invoking him, and it should be noted that most published materials about him contain some inaccuracies.
 
Owsley was my first time.  It was still legal.

Then Art Linkletters daughter decided to try and fly out of an upper floor window of the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.  The laws changed very shortly there after.


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jul 03, 2010 - 21:05
 
 lee_sf wrote:
Saw SD live when they came through San Francisco last October, and they were surprisingly cool, like, a top-5 live show in the last several years. Was expecting more filler, didn't think it would turn out that rich, given that they peaked over 30 years ago. I need to acquire more of their albums.

 
This gives me such hope!  I've always loved Steely Dan - they're a little like the band-version of Joni Mitchell with a bunch of instruments added, but also with the intelligent lyrics and snazzy rhythms.  I'd sorta disagree with the whole "they peaked over 30 years ago" comment, though - they're still getting played, so apparently, they've maybe re-peaked? {#Bounce}

lee_sf
(2nd floor, corner)
Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 01:21
 
Saw SD live when they came through San Francisco last October, and they were surprisingly cool, like, a top-5 live show in the last several years. Was expecting more filler, didn't think it would turn out that rich, given that they peaked over 30 years ago. I need to acquire more of their albums.


Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 23:32
 
 OCDHG wrote:

I agree with the "ooze" part, but not with the cool part.  For me, it's more like the Brown Noise.

 
have you listened to the albums in their entirety? around the time their songs were coming out there weren't a lot of rock musicians with their dark and irreverent sensibility (I hadn't gotten into punk yet.)


sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: May 01, 2010 - 08:10
 
 oilydwarf wrote:
Is there something wrong with me?  I find this painful, I would rather listen to silence!  Technically accomplished I'm sure but tuneless. Help me - someone please explain the appeal of SD!!!!
 

Oh yes! Without question, please seek professional help, if not for you, then for your loved ones.{#Yes}

oilydwarf
Posted: May 01, 2010 - 08:06
 
Is there something wrong with me?  I find this painful, I would rather listen to silence!  Technically accomplished I'm sure but tuneless. Help me - someone please explain the appeal of SD!!!!

justin_thyme
(Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i)
Posted: Mar 30, 2010 - 16:23
 
I absolutely cannot stay still when this song plays . . . just gotta boogie!  {#Dancingbanana}

Awesome track, amazing performances by master musicians.  Yay, Dan!!

OCDHG
(High on a mountain)
Posted: Jan 26, 2010 - 15:03
 
 Giselle62 wrote:
Donald fagen's voice oozes cooool...
 
I agree with the "ooze" part, but not with the cool part.  For me, it's more like the Brown Noise.


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jan 26, 2010 - 15:03
 
DAN!!! DAN!!! DAN!!!!!!{#Notworthy}    They should play 10Xs more Dan here!! More, more more!!!!{#Pray}

Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Nov 24, 2009 - 18:56
 
Donald fagen's voice oozes cooool—-l like the lyrics/noir characters—-yeah, the music was tasty—-people who liked punk had to keep their love for SD under wraps for a time.

ddbz
(Indiana)
Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 15:28
 
ditto for steve from san carlos
Kid Charlemagne and Show Biz Kids thrill me endlessly as well as all of Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go

Poetry_Hound
Posted: Sep 22, 2009 - 19:14
 
One of the finest rock solos ever (both solos). Larry Carlton's playing is unbelievable. So tasty!

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Sep 22, 2009 - 19:12
 
. . . everybody stopped to stare at your technicolor motorhome - love this song! {#Dancingbanana}

steve_san_carlos
(Ummm...San Carlos, California!)
Posted: Jul 21, 2009 - 16:46
 
This is what it's all about...not just good Steely Dan (most Steely Dan is quite good), but really good Steely Dan. Royal Scam baby...yeah.

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Jul 21, 2009 - 16:43
 
 jagdriver wrote:


A direct link can also be made to Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, Whole Earth Catalog, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and just about everything having to do with modern personal computing.

What's a day without sunshine? {#Sunny}
 

A.K.A. Stanley Owsley, this is the Bear's website: http://www.thebear.org/essays.html



SweTex
(Swede living in Texas)
Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 12:27
 
F A N T A S T I C

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Feb 13, 2009 - 10:35
 
Over the years I've known a number of guitarists - rock, R&B, jazz, etc - and each and every one of them has at one time expressed admiration for Larry Carlton's work on this song. First time I heard it I was shocked to discover it was him - I was more used to his relaxed playing from The Crusaders.

esweazey73
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Feb 13, 2009 - 10:34
 
Traffic, then Steely Dan — fantastic! Go to youtube and search for something called Yacht Rock —  you won't be disappointed!

tomig
(stockton,ca)
Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 18:14
 
Another great song by a great band.