Steve Gadd??

I can't back you up on the Zappa thing. The schmaltz in Zappa's voices was DRENCHED in irony.

Love Steely Dan, this was one of the first albums I bought and still enjoy discovering, didn't realise this track was 8 minutes long, just played it again now... yep your'e right it is, it always felt shorter to me, biased you see.

I love Steely Dan and can't stand Johnny Cash,  you love Cash and hate Steely Dan, but you know the best part... Bill ignores us both and keeps playing both (and that annoying Shatner Common People thing). In a perverse way I like the fact my "1" delivery to Cash makes no difference, if it did, I would end up with my own music collection... and I already have that.

Steve Gadd??

 The drums are what got me so into this.

To me this song reminds me of the typical late 70s - 80s mush - Pablo Cruise, etc.    Exactly what I expect to hear on broadcast radio oldies stations.  On the bright side, you need some low points to really appreciate the high points, and on RP there are mostly high points.

Like most of Pat Metheny's stuff this is a "musician song" full of complex chords and phrasing that are a delight to decode and play.  Doesn't mean everybody should love it but I sure do.

Like most of Pat Metheny's stuff this is a "musician song" full of complex chords and phrasing that are a delight to decode and play.  Doesn't mean everybody should love it but I sure do.

so called "excellent" musicianship does not a great song make..I'm just sayin. If you like it great, but just because some guy can noodle on guitar and hire a bunch of session guys, doesn't make him/ her a great song writer

Looks like this is a real love-it-or-hate-it song.   Personally, I've heard better yodeling.

so called "excellent" musicianship does not a great song make..I'm just sayin. If you like it great, but just because some guy can noodle on guitar and hire a bunch of session guys, doesn't make him/ her a great song writer

Wow 1977 .. I must be aging .. remember buying this way back then and its still one of my favourite tracks ... Great band and all accomplished musicians in their own rite. I notice a few ''Negatives'' but as its been said before they probably to young to have lived through this era.. thus missing this progressive music. hence the misunderstanding. And as George Orwell wrote in 'Animal Farm' ''2 Minutes GOOD... 4+Minutes BAD'' ...Thanks Bill for playing.  

Did the trolls really chase you away? If so, too bad. Then again, that's what trolls want: a planet devoid of everything except themselves, so they can sit in a grand circle and crab at each other ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

But I'm going to disagree with you—even in absentia. It's one thing to enjoy (or dislike) a band or genre, it's quite another to compare them to other bands—a child's game. Just because you like someone more than another doesn't make them better musicians—they just play a brand of music you like better. Agreed that Steely Dan embraced a high level of musicianship. Becker and Fagen surrounded themselves with the best session players and wrote great parts for them (like Steven Gadd's incredible drumming on this track). Similarly, Radiohead, regardless of what you may think about their body of work (and I have mixed reactions about that), are terrific musicians and a great band.

I don't particularly care for Kenny G's music, but I would never suggest that he isn't a top flight musician. 

Looks like this is a real love-it-or-hate-it song.   Personally, I've heard better yodeling.

I think the people are voicing their complaint about the length of the track.  I have seen no other song with such a high number of 1 ratings.  I don't think it has anything to do with the quality of the music. 

159 "1" votes and a 6.7 cumulative listener rating for this tune, which is arguably the best piece of musicianship ever to grace the rock genre.

Nothing less than 7s and 8s for Radiohead, who aren't good enough musicians to carry Steely Dan's guitar straps.

This is why I quit listening to RP.

For the handful of you who are actually interested in musicianship, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0FdS-e960

This came on, I muted and went away for tea and a chat, come back at least 8 minutes later and the thing's still going. As Joe Strummer said: f*ckin' long, innit? Back to the dub for another 5 minutes until something a bit more interesting comes on.

 
 I beg to differ, good music never goes out of date. By way of your thought processes no one would ever hear Bach, Beethoven, Chopin.. sounds like you got the short end of the stick with your furry pet.. hope it had it's shots.

159 "1" votes and a 6.7 cumulative listener rating for this tune, which is arguably the best piece of musicianship ever to grace the rock genre.

Nothing less than 7s and 8s for Radiohead, who aren't good enough musicians to carry Steely Dan's guitar straps.

This is why I quit listening to RP.

For the handful of you who are actually interested in musicianship, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0FdS-e960

How could they spend 4 weeks on that and not notice that a grating nasal voice, sliding up and down the register, tends to go after people's nervous system with a wire brush?

it took them 4 weeks studio time to mike the bass drum on this song.