Steely Dan - Do It Again (REACTION)

‪@AirplayBeats‬ reacts to Steely Dan’s Do It Again
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[@kellydelay18]

Steely Dan is what we used to test the speakers back in the day

[@AirplayBeats]

I was testing some speakers last night with Steely Dan

[@petem.3719]

That's funny. I came home one day and found my dad listening to my album and this song on an amp he built. It was '73. He was 40 and NEVER listened to my music until then.. He started bragging about how you could hear that tinkley sound on his great amp.

[@Luuuc]

It's still what I use

[@larrywaters6127]

Yes, it was. Do I have what I need toget all the flavor.

[@bc2198]

​@@AirplayBeats I'm a stagehand and I still hear audio using Steely

[@kennybryan4816]

This music is miles ahead of anything out these days . This is talented artist

[@ammaleslie509]

The first song on the first side of their first album. What a debut.

[@esdel1955]

I love Denny Dias’ electric sitar solo.

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

Yeah, that's an electric guitar with sitar strings: a very distinctive sound, and in this case *not* used to imitate a sitar. Stevie Wonder used the same distinctive sound in Signed Sealed Delivered. :) That was the first time Dias played sitar strings, and he scorches that solo!

[@kbrewski1]

Dias a very overlooked and underrated presence in the early band in addition to the great Skunk Baxter.

[@musiconlyplease98]

one of the best guitar solos..... 🎸💯💯

[@johncarbutt4311]

My favorite SD guitar solo!

[@clifton8929]

A great Steely Dan tune “Do It Again” shows how people often find themselves repeating the same mistakes over and over again, no matter how much they convince themselves otherwise. As men, we're drawn to value certain elements and habits even though they are often quite destructive. Love your reaction and your hard work and choice of songs are greatly appreciated. Your intellectual input and knowledge make your channel unique. The music is magic and the music is truly in you both.

[@AirplayBeats]

Thank you so much. We appreciate that. Happy Holidays to you and your family!!

[@w5winston]

Agree, l prefer watching musicians react.✌

[@kevinmiller5526]

You cannot, cannot not love Steely Dan..... they are a musician's musicians. Top notch shit. Walter Becker was a technician of many styles. RIP.

[@JohnWhite-xc3md]

In my ryder, I demand that the intro to this song is playing anytime I enter a room, a building, car or whatever. Lol. So badass.

[@xebio6]

One of the most impressive opening-track-in-a-debut-album ever

[@danl.909]

This is a "WTF is that? Turn that up!" song. The first couple of times we heard this back in ‘73, we had never heard anything like it, so that’s what someone in the car would say: "Wait…WTF? Turn that up." So much good SD stuff lies before you! Their 2nd album, _Countdown to Ecstasy_ is a miracle, and I can’t wait to see your reaction to it.

[@lavictorsermons6632]

The stories actually go with the music played sooooo perfect. These guys were the early gangster rappers in a sense. Great musicians to the very high levels.

[@barryhickman6911]

My FAVORITE Steely Dan tune right here!

[@yvonnestevens6179]

It’s their 3rd album pretzel logic…. Da bomb!!!!!!

[@AirplayBeats]

I can’t wait to hear that one. I’ve been hearing about it a lot and Gaucho.

[@yvonnestevens6179]

Yep Gaucho another amazing project done later…..

[@yvonnestevens6179]

Hey darlings❤️❤️❤️gotta do You Plus Me Equals love……I was a member of Undisputed Truth and had the honor of working with Norman Whitfield on this project❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ahhhh whenever…..whenever…

[@raycewilliams3300]

This song has some "unusual" sounds and here it why. "Do It Again" features an ELECTRIC SITAR solo by Denny Dias. The organ solo by Donald Fagen was performed on a Yamaha YC-30 with a sliding pitch-bending control. The song is written in the key of G minor and has a tempo of 125 beats per minute. It follows a chord progression of Cm-Dm-Eb-Dm7-Gm-Cm-Dm-Eb-Dm. Steely Dan later became well known for their chord progressions.

[@AirplayBeats]

I love the Steely Chord progressions!!

[@maxbrazil3712]

One of the funkiest guitar solos of all time...

[@johnhickman2033]

I think you are possibly the best and most genuine reactors on YT. You know what you are talking about and understand the meaning of the music. Fair play to you!

[@billcopeland581]

Dudes, you need to do "FM", the title track they did for a movie. It's not on an album. Amazing!! (The Eagles sang backup)

[@ivanalaff5346]

Yes, please!

[@jonp4846]

Here we are 50 years later. Timeless tune!

[@AVGuyhall]

Fagen and Becker were absolutely brilliant in crafting their music - writing the lyrics and instrumental lines, choosing the musicians to play on each song, which player had the best version of a particular solo, etc. Definitely had their own unique sound you can't mistake for anyone else.

[@bobdelp2023]

LUVVVVVV THE DISCUSSION, NICE GUYS! 😊 AND I ALWAYS ALWAYS SAY THAT PEOPLE SHOULD DO STUFF IN ORDER SO THEY SEE THE CHANGES AND PROGRESSIONS BUT I KNOW OF ONLY A FEW ☹ REACTORS THAT ACTUALLY DO IT THAT WAY SO! BUT YOU GUYS SEE THE PICTURE AND I LOVE THAT! ☝

[@franksorrentino9698]

One of the first albums I ever purchased. Their music is still played today when I surf the radio. I think you guys are understanding why….outstanding!

[@jparks1937]

15 yrs old when this joint debuted. steely dan. rufus featuring chaka khan and war were my faves. back in the day...

[@Spazzmatazzz]

I was in my junior year of high school when this album came out and it was like nothing we'd ever heard and I 've been hooked ever since! I've been watching through your Steely Dan journey and I'm chomping at the bit for you to get to Gaucho! Not hurring you! Take your time and enjoy it all! I love this channel. Makes an old fart happy! lol

[@AirplayBeats]

😂 thanks for always supporting us. We look forward to your comments. I want to hear Gaucho so bad. I fight the temptation of playing it everyday.

[@Wordsmyth8]

The first album I bought with my own money from my first job. Never looked back. I’m a lifelong fan of the Dan.

[@roundtownKen]

The sitar sound on this track is a specially designed 6 string electric guitar("electric sitar") made by guitar maker Danelectro. Guitar players will recognize the standard neck and fretboard combo. it lends itself to playing runs and string bends like a normal guitar. This is because the modifications are at the "bridge" and pickup end of the strings. This meant that Baxter and Diaz could play it, and they wouldn't have to hire Ravi Shankar.

[@hklinker]

I’ve never heard these details before. Thanks!

[@annewoodard6803]

I was twelve when Do It Again was on the radio and I can still say it’s one of the best songs from the 70’s.

[@yvonnestevens6179]

Pretzel logic is a great album by Steely, I think it followed Can’t buy a thrill❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@loisrogers9042]

I played this so much in those years!😊

[@yvonnestevens6179]

Hey my brothers FM by steely is killer it was not on an album but released as a single and it’s also on their greatest hits album……this song is stellar released in 1978

[@AirplayBeats]

I think we are going to sneak in FM as we go through this Can’t Buy A Thrill album. Lots of people asking for that one. Keep a look out for it!!

[@annbeguity5932]

@@AirplayBeats Good news!: *please* consider this edit version of FM, which includes *both* Becker’s guitar outro and Christlieb’s sax outro; it’s cruel to have to choose just one. Plus, the groove goes on for longer :-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWKZnpymitN0Y68

[@markharbin9945]

DD is killing it on guitar

[@esdel1955]

It’s an electric sitar 👍

[@georgetaxi8179]

I think it's good that you start from the beginning. You get to see how their sound evolves from each album. Just a heads up there are tracks on this album that have different singers. The drummer sings Midnight cruiser and David Palmer sings on Brooklyn and Dirty Work.

[@billwilson7948]

One might say that they were finding their way. (“this road it runs, from Paraguay, & I’ve just come all the way” tee hee) Sometimes ya gotta take a Midnight Cruise thru Brooklyn, it’s Dirty Work but someone Owes The Charmer Under Me!

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

Yeah, I think AB are going to enjoy Midnight Cruiser: I love it.

[@mellemellbc]

This is the ultimate 70’s oldSchool Hollywood jam

[@kurtadams3021]

Classic piece of creation. I love it ❤❤

[@aspenward390]

I rushed to the music store to buy the sheet music for this when it came out. I and my band mates were in Junior High, and they looked at me like I was crazy when I showed up at practice with it. We weren't good enough to even make a go of it, and that haunted me for many years. After all, I was 14, and I expected everything to be easy and doable. Hard lesson there.

[@xebio6]

Fun fact: one of the first mashups ever, at least the first one that got radio airplay and was played in clubs a lot in the early 80s, was a mix combining Do it Again and MJ's Billie Jean. There were several versions by different producers. Check them out

[@stevenm.6886]

In the early 70’s I was strictly hard rock. Zeppelin, Sabath, Deep Purple. Then Steely Dan, I started listening to more Jazz, Latin, they really opened up music for me

[@echopryme]

The greatest line ever written MAY be "In the morning you go gunning for the man that stole your water" 😎💯

[@suesmith7968]

This song got a lot of radio play in the day. It got my attention and I was so happy to go on their particular trip. After this album the Dan left the top-40 formula and ….ManOhMan….their recordings are best appreciated when listening from start to finish in one sitting. ☮️❤️

[@imogene413]

Me at 17. I can smell, feel, and taste this song.

[@briangray00]

50 years young and what an introduction. One of *the* great economical choruses.

[@IamAmericasDaughter]

This is their radio intro to the world.

[@IamAmericasDaughter]

Speakers yes, but the entire system! You knew if it was crap or not.

[@babylonsister118]

This entire album is worth a look/see/listen! It's when we fell in love with them 50 years ago! Not positive that it's from this album but you may stumble upon a sample.

[@rayj1011]

I wore the grooves out on this album sitting next to my furniture cabinet sized-stereo/turntable.

[@blackwolf6082]

Really enjoying this journey you guys are on with this band

[@AirplayBeats]

We are having a blast diving through these albums.

[@petem.3719]

I was 16 in 1973 and came home from school one day to find my dad listening to this song on my SD album to check out a stereo system he built from scratch. Probably the first rock album he ever played in his life.

[@jenniferandrews1917]

This is one of my favorite Steely Dan songs. Great start to my day. 😊

[@nicstr28]

This is their best song imo if this doesnt move you your heart has stopped

[@77bevo]

Amazing how music takes you back. Sophomore in HS, just getting our unrestricted drivers licenses, hop into my buddy's lite blue Trans Am, he punches in an 8-track I haven't seen before and this song comes up. Hooked on S.D. since.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Smooooooooooth jazz on the play-down tip from the dynamo bros. Perfection election, true, tried, and choice.

[@benjaminbrowardONEOG]

I was 10 years old when this came out. Sounds yesterday.

[@sergiodavila5269]

This awesome song takes me back to me being a toddler back in my parents house in the 70’zzzz blasting this song on their record player. Such an awesome memory & song, as well as the album 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@MrDirty-if7gc]

It's hard to miss Steely Dan if you love good music and it's really cool you guys are reconnecting with music you've heard in the past.

[@LouisL-q8z]

Iconic guitar solo!

[@rkw2917]

The most influential musicians for me. PS. Ladies in years gone by would refer to their 'pleasure toys' as steely dans

[@franklimper2677]

Get your favorite strand .. Take a ride from Half Moon bay head south down the PCH .. play Steely Dan .. that’s how you do it .. thanks for your content

[@markgallagher8129]

Nothing but excellence from those guys.

[@John_Chu]

The "plastic organ" solo by Donald Fagen was performed on a Yamaha YC-30 with a sliding pitch-bending control.

[@827dusty]

This was the song that started it all back in 1972, I think. This was their first hit song, that made the name "Steely Dan" a name everyone would soon know very well.

[@jenniferbabros1985]

Merry Christmas my friends ❤️ and thank you

[@AirplayBeats]

Merry Christmas!!

[@BethTiner]

I saw someone comment that Steely Dan was what we tested our speakers with. This is a true statement. Something I never see in comments is how important it was for us to have the best stereo we could afford actually, most of us went into debt to buy the best. My husband and I spent $1000.00 which was a fortune then. His pay was $3.65 an hour.

[@WhoWouldWantThisName]

The Hammond B3 was used on so much music back in the mid '60s to early '70s. That's when other synthesizers started entering the scene. Prior to that it was just the electric organ sound of the Hammond. You hear it on tons of stuff back then, so it became a huge element of the sound we associate with that era.

[@se6550]

Merry Christmas guys. :)

[@AirplayBeats]

Merry Christmas!!

[@bluesrock1]

That first "guitar" solo was Denny Dias playing an electric sitar.

[@jozneptune]

“Oh, they’re getting funky now.” I can’t. 😂

[@slimpickins9124]

I'm an old rocker but I really like Steely Dan & this is my fav SD tune.

[@johncanning731]

Back to where the rabbit hole starts..Good for you guys!! I know this stuff like the back of my hand and will be with you on your subsequent journey..It'll be a great ride..Merry Christmas from the old metal head from Detroit!!

[@AirplayBeats]

Merry Christmas!!

[@Keepee66]

First track first album first verse.....DAMN. I was 12 listening on a FM clock radio when I heard this. Hooked baby 50 plus years 🀄🀄

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

One of the "All Time" Greatest hits in Rock !! 👍 Played everyday on Classic Rock Radio stations around the Nation since day one ! 🎶

[@leonh.kalayjian6556]

Up there with best lyric opening verses in rock history

[@evelynrossetto3143]

WAS A BIG HIT ON THE RADIO!!! I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!

[@jamuga60]

They really do some great jamming in this at different times..............perfection.

[@gerhardbraatz6305]

Thanks for playing this. It's my favorite SD song. I grew up with this playing on the transistor radio.

[@James-vx8ci]

Still have my album that I bought in 72. The album cover is what got me , never heard them .

[@donholl]

I'm glad you made note of it being the "Hello! We're..." song from them. DIA is on my "short list" of the most impressive Record 1/Side A/Song 1 numbers in the "rock" canon: it was a mind-blower at the time it first hit the radio.

[@mikecaetano]

Fire! The song dropped in 72 but FM rock radio stations played it regularly throughout the decade. It reminds me of long trips in the car flying down the highway on the way through the deserts of the American Southwest.

[@richardbarton6146]

a song about addictions and a movie scene rehearsed over and over again, and a lonely guy loving a little wild one, but she brings him only sorrow, but he begs for her back and she brings him only sorrow, and he goes back jack and do it again....

[@ALinderVideo]

My favorite lyric in this song -- the last line of the last verse: "In the land of milk and honey, you must put them on the table."

[@rorybellows-wz5tx]

Absolutely crazy a tune like that came out way back in 72. I listen to steely dan on the daily

[@russelbarnes7235]

Nice to see you at the start of SD and their 8 year run. Great reaction to the 1st SD song any of us ever heard. Great song too. I'll be following along, with you through this, and subsequent albums. Lead on gentlemen!

[@Sweep_The_Leg_Johnny]

we used to have a running joke at a donut shop i worked at in my 20s & 30s about Steely Dan: When a familiar song comes on the radio & someone would ask "Who Is This?" everyone would yell Steely Dan, and about 80% of the time they'd be right. hehe.

[@anthonyglosek2567]

SANGIN!!!!!

[@samrosenblum2331]

I like how you said that you heard this song before but never knew it was Steely Dan. Just like you guys I actually started at the end but with the greatest hits album and then went back and discovered all of their albums and there were several songs including this one that it was such a nice surprise to discover that it was Steely Dan because when you think about their entire catalog it is pretty diverse. And the fact that in the first album they had a different singer on one of the hits so it's really easy to not know Steely Dan may have wrote a song that you had no idea it was them but could remember hearing it back in the day. I was born in 1971 so even ten years later as I'm a young boy listening to music you would hear this song but I was really too young to keep track of who did what unless they were some sort of humongous band like the Beatles anyway I love watching your reaction videos to one of my favorite bands of all-time keep up the great work guys

[@mc76]

FYI: the solo was played on a Magnus Chord Organ, a cheap, plastic, pre-synthesizer keyboard for people who could not afford an actual organ. My dad sold them, and we had one at home. I recognized the sound the first time I heard this song.

[@jamesferris4573]

I saw Steely Dan with Black Oak Arkansas when they were promoting this album and this song was getting popular. They sounded incredible, and when I saw them again when they were touring Aja they also had remarkable musicians with them.

[@beanchilada]

They never toured Aja

[@jamesferris4573]

@@beanchilada My mistake. I did see them after Aja came out and they played a lot of the songs from that album. Therefore I thought they were touring the album.

[@kbrewski1]

@@jamesferris4573 They didn't tour from 1975 to 1992, so if you heard Aja songs it was post 1992.

[@masapell]

Great tune that I can remember hearing on the single speaker of my dad’s car AM radio in the early 70’s …. It’s like Carlos Santana and The Doors mixed together with The Dan’s eastern flavored pixie dust. Merry Christmas to you both with love!!

[@AirplayBeats]

Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

[@joelliebler5690]

A truly great tune with an award winning guitar solo! This song was played all the time on FM radio stations back in the 1970’s!

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

Fagen & Becker were hugs fans of early R&B-jazz bands, particularly Charlie Parker. You'll hear numerous references to that creative & self-destructive culture, Band, and style in their music: Do It Again, Midnight Cruiser, Parker's Band... and Deacon Blues. 🙂 I love your appreciation and insights. Peace!

[@metaphoria3]

Even during the intro those lil guitar inflections or whatever are like voices

[@harish71]

best Sitar solo ever

[@MicheleJane]

Ah, the memories from back then when I hear this.

[@vincerussell6893]

Been waiting for some more Steely Dan, Roll Tide!

[@danielmccann8325]

Going back to the beginning, the song that started it all for many of us. Walters bass playing on the early stuff really stands out, before they hired the studio guys to take over. Thanks for the reaction, happy holidays!

[@AirplayBeats]

Happy Holidays!!

[@bobburroughs6241]

The classic that I heard first on the radio back then. Rushed out to buy the album - favourites ever since. With others listed here you're playing many favourites from back then!

[@rickb4079]

One of the most underrated bands in in history. They're musicianship is barnone some of the best it's ever been written and played. Thanks for sharing. I got a request. Go listen to Gary Moore I'll play the blues for you. You'll see another great guitarist. Try it please. Then check out the rest of his portfolio.

[@codygiron7814]

I fell in love with Steely Dan's music with the album AJA (back then it was all vinyl). After that, I bought everything they did. With AJA, Michael McDonald joined the group - what an amazing lineup of blues/jazz musicians! Their music is timeless. Great, smart, articulate review guys! More, please.

[@AirplayBeats]

Aja is the first album we heard from Steely Dan as well. Been hooked ever since.

[@steviemccormick3762]

Eargasm !!!!!

[@irenelopez3390]

Brings back memories ❤

[@mateostaplez7497]

"Reelin' in the Years" from Can't Buy a Thrill will blow you away

[@MamawT65]

I would play this loud enough my neighbors could hear it also when I was a teenager!

[@tommythompson9565]

This is a "grow on you" song. It was for me, anyway. It was played a lot on the radio upon initial release. I had my radio with me most of the time as a kid and teen. A little transistor one with a single line headphone. Or later on a non-stereo radio that was a little bigger than the small transistor one, although it might have been transistor, too. But i loved music even as a pre-teen. I was around 12 when this song hit the airways. Liked it. But as years and even decades went by, I'd hear the song differently. It seemed to have morphed from a likable song into one that I loved. I guess I heard it better. My musical ear matured, or something. And I would get into it -- let myself be swept up by it's groove. Something unique about it. And then it's longer than most hit songs were back then. Or even now. Of course, Steely Dan is known for unique song writing. I believe you guys will hear this song better upon further listenings. And then WANT to have further listenings after those.