My Old School (Steely Dan, 1973) performed by Franklin Brothers Band

[@iggirotrot1]

AWSOME !!!!!!!!!!

[@betodaval]

You guys rocked!

[@carlfranklin]

Thank you!

[@andyinoregon]

You're spoiling me with a 10-piece band on this bad boy from 1973. I've always thought that the genius of this song was the instrumental battle between Jeff "Skunk" Baxter's lead guitar and Jimmie Haskell's brilliant horn arrangement. Hard to believe that "My Old School" went nowhere as a single back then, but today is every Steely Dan tribute band's set closer.

[@carlfranklin]

Thanks very much! If you get to see us, please come up and say hi!

[@andyinoregon]

@@carlfranklin It would be my honor. When my wife and I first saw Steely Dan play this song live at the U. of Toledo on Sunday April 21, 1974, they did it without a horn section or female backing vocalists. They were still one of the best live bands on the planet that year.

[@carlfranklin]

@@andyinoregon Very cool. Kevin, our bass player, also saw them when they came on their first tour in the 70s. I'm sure you'd have a lot to talk about.

[@carlfranklin]

@@andyinoregon I was born in 67. I first heard them from the Aja album. I taped a penny to a postcard to get 8 albums from the RCA record club. Aja came in the mail as one of the featured albums. I was 10, and I was hooked! Check out the other live videos. Home at Last is my fave from that album. What a groove! I have since learned the Purdie Shuffle, and how it has influenced drummers all over the world.

[@andyinoregon]

@@carlfranklin I'll turn 74 next week, and my coincidental contact with Steely Dan session musicians is crazy as hell, considering that I grew up in the middle of a cornfield in northwest Ohio. In the fall of 1965, my older cousin took me to the Van Wert, Ohio County Fairgrounds to see Rick Derringer & The McCoys play their hit, "Hang On Sloopy" (now the official rock song for the State of Ohio). I was 14 and Derringer was 18. He grew up just 40 miles south of Van Wert in Fort Recovery, Ohio. In 1973 I bought his first solo album, "All American Boy," and Steely Dan's 2nd album, "Countdown To Ecstasy," where I was thrilled to hear Rick playing slide guitar on "Showbiz Kids." In Dec. 1966 The Yardbirds played Lima, Ohio's Springbrook Gardens Teen Club (you can Google the show poster). I was expecting to see both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page that night, but Beck was a no-show (having returned to London after becoming upset with the tour conditions). What I didn't know until decades later (after watching an interview on KZbin) was that NYC native, Elliott Randall, (then a 19-year-old guitar teacher at Lima's Custom Percussion Music store) was also at that concert and introduced himself to Jimmy Page. Less than 6 years later Randall would compose and play the lead guitar solos on Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years" which Page would famously rate "12 on a scale of 10" in an interview he gave to "Guitar" magazine. Then in Aug. 1971 my wife and I began watching "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" on TV and noticed that their studio drummer looked young enough to be in The Partridge Family. Seven months later on Sunday March 19, 1972, we attended a Sonny & Cher concert in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the couple proudly introduced their 17-year-old drummer, Jeff Porcaro. Fast-forward two years and we're attending our first Steely Dan concert at the U. of Toledo, where the one performer we had seen in concert before was a just-turned 20 Jeff Porcaro, tandem drumming alongside Jim Hodder. Steely Dan then broke our hearts by refusing to tour for the next 19 years. The closest we came to our 2nd concert during that 19-year hiatus was Saturday Aug. 7, 1982, when The Hoops McCann Band (a group of 7 Steely Dan session musicians) performed an entire set of Becker-Fagen compositions at the very first Mt. Hood Jazz Festival at Gresham, Oregon's Mt. Hood Community College. Producer Gary Katz was onstage that afternoon and, like Peg, gave a smile for my camera.

[@cyberherbalist]

Hooray, Carl Franklin rocks on! Hey, I'm retired now for the past 9 years, but I still remember DotNet Rocks! A lot of help in my old coding days! Thanks, Carl and Richard!

[@carlfranklin]

Thank YOU

[@bassmonk2920]

How do you pay all those guys....

[@carlfranklin]

Yellow Monopoly Bills. :)