Green Earrings (Two Alternate Outtakes) - Steely Dan

Green Earrings outtakes from the recording sessions leading up to the Royal Scam

[@tonyballz9023]

Possibly the Dan's best groove. Purdie is a monster!

[@cybercamp2900]

Agree my friend. Rikki is another perfectly arranged tune. IMHO🤔

[@davidparker9676]

Bernard is a master with incredible feel and accuracy.

[@davekeiser4971]

"You done hired the hit maker!" Bernard Purdie

[@loslobos9461]

Amazing. No click. Tight as a drum. With head phones on you can hear the musical genius of Bernard Purdue. The ever so subtle opening and closing of the hi hat along with the delicate snare drum ghost notes. So sweet!

[@Videosop23]

How can you tell Purdie isn't playing to a click? Because he speeds up as the song proceeds.

[@loslobos9461]

@@Videosop23 It’s my understanding that he wasn’t. I could be misinformed. Most of the old school drummers didn’t like playing to a click. Purdie probably didn’t need one.

[@davebartholome2924]

This was before Becker and Fagen apparently lost their minds and thought they needed a machine to create the perfect groove. . .

[@swolemole69]

Well Fagen did, Becker was in the hospital during the time Donald went mad. Thats the same time he had the 250 takes of Babylon Sisters.

[@marclandes9779]

Purdie & Rainey are mesmerizing

[@paulrichter2863]

1. Goddam, these are two wicked funky cooking grooves. 2. Goddam, these are two wicked creepy looking dudes.

[@twoblacklabs904]

saltspicious...Keep the rarities, demos and practice session recordings flowing!

[@SteveMoore2600]

First take is the STONEST groove

[@doce7606]

Bernard kept the evil three closed-hat lick at the entrance to the solo for the killer final take....

[@tagmotion]

Sometimes what I love about Bernard’s playing is just how minimalist it is: less being more. But here his drumming is full to overflowing. Yet it has the same space. What a groove. He makes it sound easy. How do you do that? The man’s a genius.

[@crlaw75]

As Bernard would say, "let me 'splain to you. Not explain, 'splain".

[@Me97202]

I got to know Purdie a little bit during my time in Portland radio. Interesting dude, with _lots_ of fascinating stories to tell.

[@carlpollington5059]

2:28 "Guess his weight" ?? Been listening to the Dan for over 30 years. Never gets old

[@Dan-o-Steely2000]

I think Fagen’s saying “Just great”.

[@bigfootdean]

Fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

[@kevthebass]

Purdie and Rainey = Genius squared

[@TruthSeeker13]

Mannnnn....those lads are having fun. I kinda like both versions. Thank you for posting. 😎🤘🏼

[@cybercamp2900]

I just SUBBED You must come from my time and space. I checked your play lists👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Great selection thanks for the memories🙏🏻

[@cybercamp2900]

You got me revved for the show next month. The Normal Tour is coming to Charlotte next month 10/2021 ... gonna be my first show w/o Becker🥲

[@garycrisp6631]

Great guitar chords at 2:04. There really were the slickest of chord voicings on Steely Dan records.

[@mattrice6756]

This is very cool. I love how the clavinet is a bit looser in these takes, esp. take 1 where it sort of rolls into the percussive chords. I don't know if this is Paul Griffin or Don Grolnick.

[@jml-rj5re]

Clavinet: Paul Griffin Fender Rhodes: Don Grolnick

[@willramirez75]

These sound more like rehearsals than outtakes

[@doce7606]

Ya gotta love Denny Dias' phaser-flanger groove a la Buddy Guy on ' I left my blues in SF'.. '67.... these guys were the hippest of the hip....

[@bikesandcampswithcats]

Oh! 1st time hearing this. Thanks!

[@alhudson]

02:30 "Just wait". So good to be able to hear Bernard's encouragement and whooping at the magic that is taking place. I found this take too slow for my tase when it started but maybe Bernard was telling me to wait? Because I started really feeling it around that time and love this slightly slower approach to the tune.

[@Dan-o-Steely2000]

That’s Donald making those vocal sounds/comments not Bernard.

[@poiuytrewdfghjksa]

Tsssssssssssss……… TOO fucking cold god damn it

[@doce7606]

All the parts are so clear here... wow !! a gold mine.. is there more like this...?

[@jonh901271]

Omg that’s so good!

[@matthewbyerts3108]

The joke is on y’all. It’s not Purdie, it is Ringo. 😂

[@doce7606]

HIP HIP HIP ! subscribed.... !

[@noternunstoned]

Is it about a thief that steals the emerald earrings and the Greek medallion? Tells "Angel, sorry! can't help the hunger to steal from even you". Who knows? I have some bootleg and outtakes of this great funk classic but I never had this one, thanks.

[@tiluriso]

That's it, lyrics about a jewel thief who preys on rich, married and bored women, seduces them then steals their stuff, since they are married they never denounce him in order to avoid a scandal, so h goes on w/ impunity.

[@trk327]

That is the Rock Steady groove he played for Aretha

[@mark_lhr3]

Thanks so much for posting these ! Certainly not final drum take but awesome nonetheless.

[@doce7606]

The pic of the late great Walter with Donald triggers me... In the guitar-piano duo space, a quite mundane guitar player can bring a magic of groove, and happening harmonic shifts, courtesy of the fretboard, that a traditional piano player wouldn't think of... while the intricacies of the 88-space add the inside moves to the guitarists overall-more limited harmonic palette...

[@wompswag9532]

Who is the person counting off and laughing? Is that Purdie?

[@eric_bee]

Indeed it is!

[@jml-rj5re]

Is that Gary Katz who says "Well, Bernard..?"

[@loslobos9461]

That would be ‘The Hit Maker’

[@tiluriso]

That was Gary Katz, yes@@jml-rj5re

[@tiluriso]

Bernard Purdie's voice audibly doing the count off. Slower tempo, Dank AF! maybe one or two, different changes at the end of the instrumental transition, right before the solo?, some kicks also different, but the tempo and grove are Phat.

[@Gla5g0wDaddy0]

please and thanks

[@noternunstoned]

The first take is slow, maybe too slow for a live show, but by only about 5 bpm, Purdy is definitely driving the bus.

[@Kraflanglanopstuv]

Where the hell does this come from? Is there outtakes for other songs as well?

[@xebio6]

Yep. Tons of them. And a host of unreleased tracks, mostly unfinished but so juicy. Most of them are on KZbin.

[@klausdreams4275]

@@xebio6 Dondeeee????

[@xebio6]

@@klausdreams4275 Lol, just type "Steely Dan alternate take" or "outtake". There's full albums of outtakes and discarded versions.

[@tiluriso]

engineers and assistants (or producers?) involved int original sessions likely had K& copies and passed them on, or someone w/ access to the unmixed masters. Or....

[@crlaw75]

I prefer the second take over the first. It's more looser and grooves more.

[@jusdena.6535]

Hello, is there any way to get the audio of these to mp3? You are welcome to contact me.

[@doce7606]

Bernard kept the evil three closed-hat lick at the entrance to the solo for the killer final take....