Steely Dan - Stand By The Seawall (Remastered)

[@jsamc]

Rick got me here !!

[@TheMisterGriswold]

The Omartian interview is do-not-miss.

[@sportav]

Me too. Just finished it. This is gold baby!

[@RichardGallone]

I confirm, i'm your phone

[@niteoul529]

Me too! What a great little hidden gem! Trying to imagine what the vocals would be like

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

​@@sportav😂

[@TheMisterGriswold]

A new (to me) Steely Dan song! Awesome! 🎶

[@ZJProz]

The bass sounds like Motown Jackson Five and the opening drum pattern is the Steve Gadd pattern used by Paul Simon...so good.....I have been swimming in SD outtakes all weekend. TY

[@suzannelanglois1123]

Donald, Where are you? August 2024. We need your music❤❤

[@thesmiler1579]

1:52 The lick

[@noaswes]

no?

[@jsamc]

@@noaswes he must have meant the piano.

[@chrisbigred1]

just missing one note though. 🙂

[@pdexBigTeacher]

When I first heard this gem, it seemed like the template for so many 'Aja' tracks. Like Fagen, Becker, Chuck Rainey and Steve Gadd were just messing around with chords and riffs, and from this seed sprouted 'Aja', 'Josie', 'Home at Last', etc. Glorious.

[@haydenwalton2766]

exactly what I thought

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

It's exactly this. The proto Aja.

[@rcla77771]

No Fagen or Becker on this. Gadd, Rainey, Carlton, Michael Martian on piano, Victor Feldman, Rhodes.

[@bobbyohanesian4228]

@@pdexBigTeacher what's wrong with that beautiful template?

[@pdexBigTeacher]

@@bobbyohanesian4228 NOTHING! I can't get enough of it! One of my favorite tunes! Rainey's subtle slides are groovy .

[@maxwdg]

Thank you for your great work. I've had a copy of the mix that was loaded on the Tube several years ago - it had some pretty bad wow and flutter and was a bit "cloudy" sounding. This is a much cleaner version! Very listenable. Perhaps the best we could ask for :)

[@ottohesslein3230]

Sounds like Don and early influence to his 'Sunken Condos' stuff. Always a great groove. My 'if you were stranded on a desert island and could only hear one group' group.

[@ColbyYadz]

I always thought Home at Last was a pirate ship sailing home from the sea and seeing the shore

[@jakematthews8728]

that boosted guitar is funky bro, great remaster in my book

[@LENZ09777]

This is gonna be someone’s hurricane theme song this week

[@cremersalex]

Those toms!

[@ARAKARABLUE]

Sounds great man right on

[@ewaf88]

I just read about aja on Wikipedia and found out about this outakes. Wow

[@Kitty3761]

Beautiful ❤

[@andrewwilson888]

Sounds great. Digging this!

[@vasukilaru8252]

Sounds great.

[@doubts]

Gadd was only in the studio for a day? Doesn't remember Aja because he was rather messed up from the night before? Still, he reads and interprets music in one or two takes like this. Amazing guy

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Of all these studio drummers, my absolute favorite is Jeff Porcaro but it is undeniable that Steve Gadd's sight readings were absolute second to none perhaps only equaled or surpassed by Vinnie Colaiuta.

[@tommonk7651]

Very nice....

[@Topspeed5280]

Love it! Great job.

[@composedbydyc]

More Royal Scam-ish to me. They definitely did “The Fez” somewhere in a close timeframe. Maybe.

[@viclakervic2571]

Great work!!!

[@flipmcdonought5835]

Great.

[@DAVEBLISS2007]

I have never heard this track before. How did you find it?

[@willbill6449]

This HAS to be Steve Gadd right???

[@Cymbalix]

No doubt.

[@bobbyohanesian4228]

Never heard, mu chords at their finest, Porcaro on drums?

[@rangjungyeshe]

Judging by the precision and fills, definitely Gadd

[@RonaldCharlesEpstein]

Great song for people in charge of flood control.

[@JoeChrisMorris]

Gullywater is also good

[@pjost6643]

I hear a little bit of Kid Charlemagne in the chord changes

[@jimriz]

Musicians on this track? Definitely sounds like Gadd on drums.

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Oh definitely Gadd. C. Rainey on bass as well, probably Parks, Dias or Carlton on guitar.

[@jsamc]

@@IronMan-tk8uc Michael Omartian on keys per good ole rick @

[@livemusicisbetter2]

Was there vocals for this song?

[@norsketilbakeblikk3717]

Do you feel this song lacks anything? It’s perfect the way it is.

[@livemusicisbetter2]

@@norsketilbakeblikk3717judging from the repeated sections which would likely have corresponded to verses and chorus, I would say it wasn’t intended to be an instrumental, and despite the quality musicianship doesn’t really stand on its own as an instrumental

[@norsketilbakeblikk3717]

@@livemusicisbetter2 completely disagreed

[@eric_bee]

There were no vocals for this.

[@jimrodgers6441]

@@livemusicisbetter2I agree man. Definitely seems like a banger dan tune, but feels like an incomplete demo or a partially mixed studio studio cut right now without vocals.

[@DIGGISTiV]

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