GOOD STUFF performs "FM" by Steely Dan live at The River Street Jazz Cafe

[@andyinoregon]

It's been argued by many that this song is the best thing in the rock and roll movie, "FM." Interesting that Walter Becker played both bass and lead guitar on this title track for the 1978 film, and that they got The Eagles' Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit to contribute backing vocals ("Turn up The Eagles the neighbors are listening"). As they did on the "Aja" track and hit single, "Deacon Blues," they borrowed "The Tonight Show's" tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb. I was lucky to meet him when he performed at the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival in Gresham, Oregon in the mid-'80s. He graciously signed my 1977 "Aja" album jacket, and it would do my musical heart good to think that he has watched your incredible performance of the song he contributed so much to.

[@goodstuff8238]

Andy,....you,....my friend are a major Steely Dan fan! Great comments!

[@CeciliaCorona-h6v]

Beatitifil D.F i love you

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Very Much! Love Your Comment! We are all huge Donald Fagen fans and we love him too!

[@gregmcintyre9936]

I Don't believe it!!!! You DID it!!!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much Greg! We are all very grateful!

[@richardschneller7674]

Thoroughly enjoyable. I’m almost having as much fun as the bass player!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You Richard from all of us! The Steely Dan catalog of music is still going strong. This is a great tune and we really enjoy playing it.

[@ThomasSielaff]

I've been a performing musician most of my life (42yrs), and I can say without hesitation, BRAVO! GOOD STUFF! Probably the best cover I've ever ran across on the web!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much Thomas! :) Wow, 42 years is a long time...Bravo to you as well! You are obviously doing something right! We all really appreciate the compliment. Thanks Again!

[@scottyahney8565]

GREAT STUFF !!!!!!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Very Much Scott! We all really appreciate the comment!

[@michaelnicholas2417]

This is a killer cover! You guys are the bee's knees! 😊

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much from all of us Michael! Much Appreciated!

[@tommymurphy1054]

fantastic what a cover

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Tommy! Thank You So Much from all of us! FM is such a classic song!

[@lupe4691]

Genial❤

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Very Much for your nice comment! Very much appreciated by the band!

[@leoraymundo7281]

Channeling the real Steely Dan vibe...esp Fagen's vocals. It's only fitting you guys are from Jersey, too.

[@goodstuff8238]

So nice of you to say leoray! We truly appreciate it! We always had respect for SD's music and we try our best to keep that vibe in the show. Thank You again fro the nice comment! 😊

[@walterjoseph7282]

Give us some Funked up Music ! Wow Sounds Great Mike ! Scott kills it on Bass !😊

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much Walter! You know that we all really appreciate the nice comments! 🙂

[@fastedward53]

Best live band in NJ with the best drummer !

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Ed! Thank You So Much for the compliment! Jay and the entire band greatly appreciate it! Thank you for your support!

[@dasvtx]

Nice job on the sax!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much! Truly Appreciated!

[@dasvtx]

@@goodstuff8238 You're welcome!

[@christianpflaumer7286]

Sounds awesome and spot on - and definitely no static at all!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You Christian! You've been so supportive and we all appreciate it so much! Thank You for taking this video clip and so many others, for taking the time to send all of them to me from this show and so many past shows, which really does take a long time..... and Thank You for always coming out to see us. We are so grateful for everything that you have done for the band! It is not easy launching a new band and you have helped us right from the start. God Bless and See You Soon!

[@TundraMan]

Good job on the cover, and extra props go to the bass player for capturing the spirit of Chuck Rainey.

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Tundra Man and Thank You for the compliment. Much Appreciated! Scott is an excellent bass player and a pleasure to work with. He appreciates your comment very much. Thank You!

[@andyinoregon]

Both the bass and lead guitar on this song were played by Walter Becker, but Chuck Rainey was awesome on other Steely Dan recordings.

[@gman6708]

Good Stuff? Verryy Gooood Stuff Here! Bravo and Bravi G

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi gMan...Thank You So Much for the nice comment! All of us in the GOOD STUFF band really appreciate it! We always try to please and we really love the music we chose to play.

[@randyhenderson6166]

Wow! I enjoyed this immensely! Great job!

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much Randy! We all truly appreciate the nice comment! So glad you enjoyed our rendition of this great tune.

[@DonnaLloydVent]

Nice! 😎

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much Donna! 😊 We truly appreciate it!

[@ninezulu]

Excellent!!

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi John! Thank You So Much for the nice comment! We all appreciate it very much!

[@yourontheair]

great

[@goodstuff8238]

Thank You So Much for the nice comment! We are all very grateful! :)

[@yourontheair]

@@goodstuff8238 you bet

[@ricktangora9413]

It’s always a treat to hear and see such great players. Tight ain’t the word.

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Rick! Hey, Thank You So Much from ALL of us in GOOD STUFF! Much Appreciated! We're still a relatively new band and having some fun with this great music!

[@deejohn1659]

Yes, a truly great version of FM. But I'm curious why most cover bands don't seem to want to take on the full guitar solo on, midway through, always passing over to more sax. Don't think that even Walter Becker even took it on during his Live S.Dan shows. Wonder why. It is one of the great guitar solos. And the guitarist Don Regan here ( at 3:08) looked very capable of a longer solo. Imagine if someone like Dave Gilmour were to have a go!

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Dee John! This is Mike, lead vocalist. First off Thank You from all of us for the comment. We really appreciate it! You are obviously a big SD fan and I I can give you our take on that. There might be a couple of different versions of FM out there, but our arrangement features both the sax and guitar. The sax is the prominent instrument in that signature solo and even though the guitar is always a key ingredient in the SD mix, we wanted to feature the sax in our live arrangement. When we added FM to the set list we also figured on a structure that was more like the version played primarily on the radio, which doesn't have the long guitar solo at the end. Don does so many intricate solos which are extremely close, or similar to the record throughout the night, and although a longer solo would have been easy for him to add with his own expert spin, we wanted a bit more jazz tinged edge to the outro and Phil, sax player, is the guy for that. Fans of the band also really love the trade off between the guitar and sax at the outro. So in short, we wanted to recapitulate that sax sound when bringing the tune home. From what I have read FM was written rather quickly for the animated movie of the same name. Donald and Walter went into the studio and played the piano and guitar to a click track, so it is Walter doing that outro solo. Again, we appreciate the comment and hope that I gave you some insight on your thoughts! Stay safe and well and Thank You for posting!

[@deejohn1659]

@@goodstuff8238 ...Mike, thanks for replying. I understand your point. Of course the Radio only ever played the shorter sax version. And I only heard the full length guitar version when I bought the vinyl album version which was used on the 'FM' movie soundtrack. And it's on there that you'll hear the longer guitar solo. It's so impressive, it's as though the guitar is actually weeping. I guess I got a bit excited when I thought Don was going to take it on. But I was wondering if you're thinking of adding more upfront vocalists into the band to take on those catchy choruses, as there was just the two of you taking on that beautiful wall of sound harmony during the Gaucho chorus in the video from Pavinci's N.J. Only I recently watched Scott Sherriff's Band, along with guitar guest Larry Carlton, performing Live 'The Nightfly' album, and I was absolutely bowled over by them as were the crowd. I think they have about 3 or 4 upfront chorus backing singers. Some video comments even suggested that Fagen should sign the whole Band up and hit the road just like when the great Brian Wilson discovered The Wondermints performing back in 1998/9, and signed the lot of them up and went on Tour...cutting out the politics and in fighting with The Beach Boys (mostly with Mike Love). By the way your vocals are so like the tones of Donald Fagen. And the whole Band sounds great. Thought it was funny when those dancers came on blocking out the camera man's view of the Band. Gotta go listen to it again. I've always loved the bass in FM. But watching Scott Sherriff's Band performing 'The Nightfly' is truly spooky. No one can work out how and why they sound exactly like The Nightfly studio musicians and backing singers, when you consider how Fagen was such a perfectionist that he would fly back in all of his session musicians if he wasn't happy with a recorded track. Scott Sherriff along with Larry Carlton performing 'New Frontier.' kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH7GkIxnlLFlmac

[@goodstuff8238]

@@deejohn1659 Thanks for the reply. I think I have heard that version of New Frontier at some point and it is excellent. We like to keep the ensemble nice and tight, which means small enough to play in some venues that cannot afford to pay as much as they would a 12, or 14 piece unit. GOOD STUFF is a fairly new band. We've been together about 4 1/2 years and we are really a 4 artist tribute. We also do material from Sting, Stevie Wonder and the incomparable Gino Vannelli. We have been getting some larger venues lately and we do have a small group of great female vocalists that we work with, so you never know what lies ahead in the future. There are venues that ask us specifically for our 4-artist show and some that ask for all SD. We just did a third show in Asbury Park last weekend that was all SD, but prior dates were our 4-artists show. Sometimes we just pick the type of show we want to do by the demographic. Either way it's a great show with some top flight musicians and we appreciate the comments. We also want to Thank You Very Much for subscribing to our channel. We all appreciate it!

[@deejohn1659]

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[@stephangerth6147]

Wow, the Singer ist great. Band is good, but the song ist performed too slow.. super Sax- Solo!

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Stephan and Thank You so much for the comment! We all appreciate it very much. 😊 As for the tempo, the original record is about 111 BPM. I just clocked ours at 110 BPM. I've heard of Steely Dan fans being nit-picky, but c'mon man!...LOL! You must be an avid Dan fan....I think a a 1 BPM difference should be acceptable. So many bands speed up songs for live performances to the point where the tempo is just way too fast, but we respect your vision.

[@tonys4396]

OMG being a Steely Dan fan since their first album (Bought them as they came out, I'm 73) I swear, if I heard this playing on the radio, I'd think it was "The Dan". I LOVE this. It's like living my favorite group all over again. GREAT!

[@goodstuff8238]

Hi Tony! Thank You So Much for your kind words. We are all very grateful for your comments and we truly appreciate the support. So glad you enjoyed our rendition of "FM". It's a great tune and Steely Dan will always be my favorite band. I started singing their music way back then too, so I know the feeling of a group that has "staying power". Again, Thank You from all of us in GOOD STUFF!

[@tonys4396]

@@goodstuff8238 My favorite band ever, Now, I'm going to have to spend a lot of time on your site watching all the videos. All the best!

[@goodstuff8238]

@@tonys4396 Hi Tony! So nice of you to say that. The band is eternally grateful! Stay safe and well and All the Best!

[@412Rain]

Wow!!! Amazing vocals and musicians!! I’m a huge SD fan! Y’all sound amazing🔥🔥🔥

[@goodstuff8238]

@@412Rain Thank You So Much SA! We are all huge SD fans and love playing their music.