Aja - Steely Dan TKV

[@UFOS4]

Beautifully done video and with the perfect Steely Dan playing from one of my favorite albums, this is bliss.

[@janafreeman4291]

i found this album in my Dads collection as a kid. All my friends thought I was weird cause instead of 50 Cent, I was blastin Aja at stoplights (2005). No regrets. None at all.

[@pureshot902]

Same here. Some people just dont get it.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

You got good taste.

[@MikeCinner]

You found the good stuff.

[@donhosmer8159]

This is actual music Played by actual artists

[@powerlessrain0639]

You just like proper good music 👍🏼

[@donnapenkala6576]

Anyone else listening at 3:00 AM just to escape the chaos in the world? I’m 72 and have loved SD since I was 20. Saw them once before Walter passed away . They were so good I couldn’t believe how great they sounded. If you have anxiety this music is better than anything to soothe your soul and mind. ❤ Thank you Steely Dan for all the music over my lifetime. You’re a once in a lifetime band. ❤

[@donnapenkala6576]

I’m still up listening to SD . Lots better than turning the tv on! lol Have a great morning….🎶

[@joetretola4053]

I could not say it any better

[@davidthomas597]

Bless you donna...im listening to them on expensive youtube!! So saw your post. I love them too. They are a madterclass. Unlike rap as in crap. Hello from n.ireland all you mad steely fans. We were lucky.

[@donnapenkala6576]

@@davidthomas597 They’re definitely some of the best musicians/writers I’ve ever heard. When it’s cold & snowing out I love to sit by the fire and listen to SD. Their music helps to melt away some of the sadness in this world today.

[@donnapenkala6576]

BTW Hello from Northern Illinois, near Chicago.

[@bobdobalina838]

THESE are musicians, kids.

[@carlwheeler3403]

I remember when this album was first released back in 1977 and today I still think it is an absolute masterpiece. The composition was way ahead of its time back in 1977 and it will remain as one of the best of all time.

[@davidcammilleri5526]

I think this is the greatest album of all time. It’s perfect from the first track to the last. So many amazing artist performed on this. They were years ahead of their time.

[@fancypelusa2863]

100%

[@LeenSpaans-m2k]

Amazing music and great Musicians

[@dmpi483]

I remember it well. This album busted the price barrier. They charged a dollar more for it.

[@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey]

The band your band listened to.

[@BambiDextrous]

This is weird. It's a combination of live footage combined with the recorded version.

[@albertrandall1944]

I'm 73 now, this music will never get old, what's old is new 😊

[@sandyfox9947]

I totally agree, it is awesome, timeless ...

[@paulguerin7721]

I'm 73 also...reminds me of my youth..

[@gwynnielsen5081]

"Aja" is brilliantly constructed. Steely Dan has always been musicians' music.

[@cowboygypsey]

My favourite band of all time, I'm 70 now and are stil trying to work out all the intricacies of the guitar in the songs, thank God for the wonders of you tube.

[@chrisbranning3929]

Steely Dan was an intellectual tour de force and made some of the best music ever made. Rip walter. I got to see them live. We sat on the second row. Donald’s teeth were on full display. It sounds like a broken record , but the music made these days is so horrible. It’s good to go back and remember what good is.

[@lindahuff8976]

We were so lucky and didn't know it. Some songs were so great in my old car radio I had to pull over to take a better listen. Never will there be such music. Saw them once in Nashville at a college and the crowd was demonstrating about something stupid would have ruined the show, but the music was too good. I was about 20 then. almost 70 now. Still love to listen to the group.

[@lucydayLucida]

@@lindahuff8976 So true.

[@mariomartinez4574]

Like your comment about the teeth.. Making all that money and no dental plan..Gaucho is my fave.

[@ranjitbalan1511]

I first heard them in 1978. I just fell in love with them. I am 72 and proud to be diehard fan of them. Take a bow “ Becker & Fagen”. Walter RIP.

[@markhicks9864]

this album was a masterpiece no doubt.

[@musiconlyplease98]

was and is 👍😎

[@azukarer115]

And didn't even get a Grammy nomination!

[@babyraider11]

My parents had this album and I'm 48,Love this group.They had RnB,Jazz,And rock n Roll

[@christophermitchum6829]

Any SD is a gold...earing...😎✔️👆

[@willwetherell7265]

Still is.

[@Joann-ih6vg]

I’ve loved these guys since I was young…I’m now 71 and am still as in love with them!!! ❤️🔥 Timeless!!

[@williamharris4531]

This album should be in the national hall of Arts. If there is one

[@PhillipLandmeier]

Pffffff, wow. When the Aja album first came out, I went nuts. It blasted constantly, every day. (My belated apologies to my neighbors). And then I sat down at my piano and began to work it all out. Aja is pure genius and this song is an example. It doesn't get any better than this.

[@DHarri9977]

Steve Gadd was never given props on their personal recollection in the making of this song his drumming captured the essence of this song and of course the musicality of all the members along with the back up singers 7:51

[@theoverunderthinker]

when I was in High School, I always wanted to play in a band with this much coolness and complexity. I wanted to play SD, maybe some Little Feat on the side; we ended up playing the Police, the rolling stones, AC/DC, etc. in a band, you can usually get outvoted if you had too much taste and wanted to play something off the beaten track.

[@Frip36]

Probably because both parties are very prickly. @@DHarri9977

[@nearenufoldaze2375]

I’m 88 Y/O, played polkas and semi-classical music on my accordion; followed pop and jazz music since 1940 and on through folk and rock. So happy that Steely Dan has occurred! Sweet sounds and wonderful, thoughtful and music with consummate musicians is mesmerizing!!

[@isuriadireja91]

this and Black Cow are just Steely Dan at the top of their game. Hands down. masterpieces.

[@bobsmoot8454]

Steely Dan was one of if not best studio groups, insane musicians and singers floated in and out of the band, the production is incredible in its complexity and nuances, and then the songwriting is absolutely off the charts

[@joycevanhook3049]

A symphony in sound, all around. The magic is your anticipation of what comes next and it always fits in it's own tapestry of sway.

[@robertschappert6760]

Are familiar with Thievery corporation?

[@NickRatto]

Oh by perfection was the thing each player piece part or which ever you may call it Becker n Fagen made this they are the Dan that Folic piece of Steele , hey that’s their

[@sandyfox9947]

Oh yes!!! And the result is this fantastic music.

[@smarkmims8415]

The best. I'm old and love Steely Dan......

[@kv1930]

Steely Dan is like Pink Floyd in a way that both bands are very deep and are able to create a feeling that can't be explained, but you come back to them. Steely Dan combine complex harmony with a pop sensibility. If I ever got a chance to audition for them I would politely decline for the simple fact I would not want to waste their time,and I don't suck by a long shot! Lol

[@donalddementia8616]

Electric guitar playing is spectacular.

[@sonofelohim9857]

Honestly I thought the same thing after listening to Aja for the first time in years, a journey, a story, and music to assist your mental flight......

[@djstyron]

Plus Donald Fagan is supposedly a perfectionist..which def shows

[@kv1930]

@@djstyron From what I hear he is a very 'unique ' man. Has a clear vision and no people skills. Genius musician,but a pain to work with,although to be fair I was not at the sessions,so I'm getting only 50% of the story.

[@TheLastOilMan]

Great comparison and comment. I am a Brit prog guy ! But love these cats and the Doobs haha

[@charlesshaddow8548]

I'm 76.i have been enthralled since the early 70s. My children know every word from every song. So do my grandkids. Greatness never dies...

[@stevekugelmann1975]

We call this our Desert Island album. If you stranded on a desert island and could take only ten albums with you. This is definitely one of them. The album cut with Steve Gadd on drums is the best. It never gets old.

[@sharronarturi7958]

Still listening to Steely Dan 🎉❤😎❤️‍🔥

[@bradbailey1893]

And Wayne Shorter on sax.

[@mikekuczynski1552]

For sure

[@PeterBrown-mz4nv]

I have this album autographed by Steve Gadd.

[@paulquintin3607]

Always been a favorite of mine, definitely a deserted island choice!

[@stevenkimball5592]

By far one of the best songs ever performed by these guys bar none and they have a great many to choose from .

[@themagicroundabout2528]

I'm from Liverpool and a massive massive beatles fan "BUT " that was until I heard Steely Dan ! Blew my mind

[@thomaseliason8376]

If you like Beatles, you will like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6rMlp2OjLWqi9k

[@johnkent5042]

My two favorite bands!

[@RobertRagolia]

And this here ladies and gents is how you play music

[@philiptucci2458]

Magnificent Masterpiece from Master Musicians, top of the line solid gold standard of excellence

[@briancain7202]

My ALL TIME Favorite LOUD song! Must have decent equipment to thoroughly enjoy nuance and take in all the crescendos.

[@nancygaffney8071]

Absolutely

[@vancegilmore245]

So many nice yet indescribable moods, thoughts and emotions expressed in Aja. I love Steely Dan's music.

[@JohnB00007]

Wow! Not too many bands could measure up to that. Amazing!

[@nancygaffney8071]

I will never grow tired of this amazing music.

[@donniemacco6905]

Session musicians at the top of there game

[@markwestfield1928]

Definitely one of the best live SD performances I've ever enjoyed.. thank you thank you thank you! ♥️

[@thomasmorris5457]

It's the record being played as we watched concert footage from various live shows edited together.

[@peternewman1179]

AJA was by far the most cultivated jazz oriented popular music of it's time. Of course Joni Mitchell with Tom Scott and his LA Express backing her material on "Court And Spark" were traveling a parallel path with Steely Dan. Aja and Court came out pretty much at the same time and really upped the ante for sophistication and class in the FM format.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

You are so correct...then the evolution, for Steely Dan it was Guacho and for Joni Mitchell Hejira. Those were the days.

[@jeffcrawford3798]

What about Jack p Weather report and so on

[@jeffcrawford3798]

Jaco P

[@Myshcan]

Court and Spark released January 17, 1974. Aja release date was September 23, 1977.

[@randyneilson7465]

Wasn't it a great time to be alive??? My favorite era and I came up with the birth of rock and roll.

[@stephen1562]

Nice to see the late great Walter Becker again

[@michaelowens6533]

Been listening to SD for over 50 years and never tire of their music. Ever. That, to me, says it all. I’ll be listening to them till i drop down dead. And if there is life after death so much the better 😊

[@TheWealthOfNationz]

You are not by chance from New Ellenton?

[@garytagles7910]

I’m seventeen again. Driving my old hot rod Nova. Cruising... good ole days

[@lisamoroney3036]

Nova’s was so popular back in the days!!

[@beachliving3127]

I bought this album in 1978 and taped it on a cassette. During the summer of 1978, every night I would pop the cassette in the stereo, turn the volume down real low, hop into bed and fall asleep listening to this great music. Even today, when I get a new stereo, speakers, iPod, iPad, computer, etc, the first piece of music I listen to is this album!

[@aasja7739]

I did the same at night.

[@brucejones8749]

Through their unique perspective and composition , Steely Dan introduced the world to jazz, but many didn’t know it at the time….😁

[@GarryWootton]

Just a great time in music.

[@marcob.7801]

Truly,....Fagan & Co. is some of the most incredible music/songwriting/musicianship in popular music EVER! Hola from Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC..y'all!

[@ivellbullock784]

Rest in peace Walter Becker and Wayne Shorter.

[@robertoetojo5861]

These CATS ARE REAL DEAL D. FAGEN IS GENIUS AND WALTER DID NICE SCALES ON GUITAR..INCREDIBLE MUSICIAN. SAW THEM LIVE IN MELBOURNE, AMAZING....❤❤❤

[@lewrellam]

The best song... to dream! 🎸

[@marksimonds13]

Listening to "Aja" while deployed (US Navy) in the eighties got me through some rough nights. Thank you Steely Dan!

[@philtaphouse5316]

Got to be one of the most complexly structured songs ever. Nothing comes close surely?

[@sess5206]

Now that my kids are older, I plugged in my old Lenco L75 and put the AJA LP on. It was magical to hear it on an LP again.

[@RobertLoves]

Excellent Thomas, the Dan of Steel is cool (ask any major dude).

[@brucelaudenberger8056]

Finally got to see them a few years ago, but after the guitarist passed away. This is one of those recordings that will never die or be duplicated. They were amazing songwriters and musicians. I listen to this album often. I'm 72.

[@OhMySack]

Dear God! The emotions flow. Summer 1978, it's going to be my junior year of high school and I'm sitting by myself on the deck of my parents sailboat on a 2 week excursion around the Channel Islands off California. My folks tendered to another anchored boat for cocktail hour and I have this tape, Royal Scam, and some Jimi Hendix 'Electric Ladyland' and a small bag of crummy pot. Lost in my thoughts of a new girl back home, watching seals play around the boat. This video, quite literally, just took me back to that moment and what it felt like. A feeling I haven't experienced since and I'm now 61 fucking years old. Where did the time go?

[@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238]

It was all Wine, Women, and Song.......the Rest of the Time you just Wasted!😉 I just turned 60......the WTF just happened for me too! For a little gleam of hope, check out Leonid and Friends, covering, " My Old School".....they are Russian, but they are World Class.....and do mostly Chicago Material. It's GREAT to see and hear REAL Singers, Drums, Horns, and arrangement.......it can still happen!

[@mybeachshack]

Time, is what happens while you're making other plans. I'm 71 in 2 weeks, btw 🎉!!

[@kathycuster1714]

My Senior year of high school. What a time to be alive!

[@gordonhall9871]

i hear you big time . class of 78 here -- fish out of water nothing but music

[@kevinarmstrong8237]

61 this year This album Is the background to my best year! Family cottage on Lake Chautauqua.....western NY.

[@stephenlevine011]

This by far my favorite piece of theirs. The multi layers, jazz rock fusion, and voices. Almost hypnotic.

[@davidmacgowan]

“Chinese music from the banyan tree”. This song is a masterpiece and the musicianship is remarkable. I never tire of it.

[@tommy..980]

This is musical talent at its finest… Totally Professionals.. musicians or so they call themselves today can’t come close to the level of talent as seen here…

[@markconrad4160]

Steele Dan, among all the other great artists that gave us so much good vibes and music, are all getting farther in the rear view mirror of time. We are all getting closer to sky father, and will never forget how much we love to listen to these icons. My sky father bless all of these great men and women of all our greatest bands.

[@pauld.1256]

Steely Dan literally helped me though my life! Absolutely blessed to be around with them. Growing older, still listening and still enjoying them.

[@lisaaguero1933]

Just turned 65 and this music is a salve for the soul. Life has been a sad family history but this music makes it much better.

[@lucydayLucida]

That's so true. 64 here and new to the music of SD. It's really getting me through the recent losses of a few of my closest people. Music really is, or was, an amazing balm. Can't say that about much of the newer stuff.

[@susanbezio6708]

I had 2 copies of this album, my son has them now. I love Steely Dan and so does he. Generations, his kids love this music now. God i feel old..lol

[@lewisg1736]

Brilliant song from one of the greatest rock albums ever. Especially impressive is the masterful drumming (Steve Gadd?) The mark of a true classic is that it is still fresh over 40 years on.

[@lisalibby6716]

Yes - Gadd - he got it on the first take,,

[@johnmcaleese8459]

Every part is fresh.

[@rileyjackfansmithandjones8238]

GAAD was hip, and Cool, even while drumming in an US Army Ensemble, during Vietnam......you can look it up. Stone Cold Percussion Master!

[@streyper]

@@lisalibby6716 didn't know that. That's amazing. Steve Gadd is just unbelievable.

[@nuArk-eq9mq]

Steve Gadd was on the album, here I see a different drummer, Keith Carlock

[@phil8198]

The only album ever that touched my soul!! I wrote them and told them how it affected me! Unbelievable!

[@jwebbw]

The drumming at the end always reminds me, at the end of a fireworks show, when they send everything they got into the sky. Gadd first laid it down, but this guy drumming is no slouch.

[@brianohehir9515]

One of the finest albums ever produced, and this is the best song on the album. Drumming is insane! Thanks for posting

[@benjaminglover1570]

I`d have to take two albums (3 really) to the island. Aja and Exile on Main St. I believe Steve Gadd`s performance was a one taker. Amazing.

[@johnconnolly3635]

This is one of the best albums you could ever listen too!

[@danbates6285]

This album may I say as far as I am concerned is a Masterpiece, so complex but so smooth just my opinion!

[@mickaderholt3534]

Music like this will never be matched, it's just impossible to improve.

[@marygraffam4281]

MASTER MUSICIANS, very beautiful piece of music

[@spell-boundlb3426]

I grew up listening to Steely Dan and I Love this music as much as I did when I 1st heard it❣️ Maybe even more because this music is timeless..✌🏼✌🏼💙💜😎🎧

[@williamyoung617]

This track is Epically Haunting, and Beautiful. I say "FORGET " your friends. 50¢ sucks I was listening to d-block°, And still jamming to Mr Donald Fagen & his Awesome band Steely Dan !!!👌

[@chuckfindly7767]

In my mind, the greatest band ever!!!

[@MyPromixdirt]

in reality too

[@mawsonfamily3633]

@@MyPromixdirt love this band

[@gerardolopez6160]

No doubt

[@JakeLuke308]

There are so few perfect albums that have been made. In my view that list begins with Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, The Beatles Sargent Pepper's, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and Steeley Dan's Aja. Maybe the Beach Boys Pet Sounds. When I heard Aja for the first time I though I'm listening to genius right now. I felt transported to the recording studio where it was all happening. I felt for once actually cool. I'm not, but I felt like that.

[@pattiegail1]

I agree!

[@grant3938]

C’est américain et c’est parfait comme tout ce que font les américains en matière de musique Fagen et Becker j’adore Repose en paix Becker et longue vie à Fagen

[@shooter31m]

Thanks for posting this , it’s my favorite Steely Dan song and album. Good job sir!

[@thomaseliason8376]

Aja (the song) is like a mini jazz rock symphony.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

Beautiful Performance. So smooth and cool.

[@GAParts1]

Just a gem of a song..music to my ears❤

[@djstyron]

The sax and drums dancing together.. Wow

[@victorconcejo7711]

😅Steely Dan has a page in the 20th century music history .Aja is a real masterpiece.

[@albertgary7281]

Holy carp, this is as good as the original. Keith Carlock did the Gadd original "stick click" at 4:55 (the camera shot is on the sax but it happens) which was thought a Gadd stick accident back in the day. The last solo and then there is his symbol ride and left hand work beginning at 7:25, stellar! Holy Crap, given another listen it sounds as good as the original because it is the original recording dubbed over a video of a (couple) live performance. Keith Carlock is good but I gave him too much credit. Now I get it. Looking at your catalog, this is what you do. Very Clever...

[@franciscoaragao5398]

You are right, Albert. Well done.

[@thomaseliason8376]

You are very kind, good sir

[@vandalsgarage]

This is the original studio track, with concert footage overlaid. Its well done, but obvious

[@stevemccoy3156]

It was the studio track... no offense...Studio...not Keith C..

[@jeanraymondferron7797]

RIP WALTER BECKER !!!!!

[@glynnwadeson5605]

I’ve been a Dan fan since their first album, and unlike a lot of my earlier enthusiasms their music has never palled, it truly is timeless. They always had such great musicians playing with them, and no matter how many times I play any of their tracks they never tire. Bless their little cotton socks!

[@leapyear9460]

Its like Rush and Pink Floyd got together and had a beautiful baby named Steely Dan

[@JoanMilhoan-jn2lf]

Just trying to follow the musical train brings on a wonderful mental exhaustion. Sometimes ya just simply have to give in and listen and not think......

[@kv1930]

The drum part itself is not complicated,but what is impossible to do is duplicate the feel! The transitions between time signatures is velvet smooth! No tension!

[@gerardolopez6160]

My favorite all time group understimated. AM 64 I listen to all their music they brought together Jazz and rock like no one else COULD 👏👏👏

[@drblaney22]

Carlock is also in a class by himself.....Steve Gadd has some Enormous shoes to fill

[@dagconst1]

Agreed ,

[@Glehost]

Once Becker and Fagan lost their mojo that spoon fed us with top shelf generational drummers and guitarists (Jeff Porcaro, Steve Gadd, Larry Carlton etc) it was all over for SD after Aja except for Fagan’s solo Nightfly, and a few tunes on Gaucho (not near enough Larry Carlton for me) and with nobody else of equal talent to continue with the standards they set, the door was opened wide for post baby boomer “artists” to give us programmed drums and autotune pablum. I’m sorry but I can’t go straight from listening to the Royal Scam repeatedly, focusing on each instrument well played by top session players, to the next wave of popular music played by AI. My daddy was a WWII veteran and we were told not to pay for half assed things, go for quality. I like a few post SD tunes across the years but I can’t LOVE them like I do the SD music of the 70s and Nightfly of 82. If recorded music ain’t one or more musicians better than me, with thoughtful lyrics if not instrumental, then I am not wasting what is left of my unassisted by hearing aid hearing or my 68 year old time clock ticking listening to it. Sorry for the pontification, I let it get out of hand early and late. This is my subjective BS, but I believe it, and at my age I don’t think my BS will change.

[@jocknarn3225]

i remember it seemed not so long ago this track often played on mainstream fm radio .. here on Oz .. u'd never here this gr8 music played on air today .. when fm showed promise of album cuts in stereo in the mid-late 70s i wondered how long it'd last .. it soon devolved into the same boring repertoire of AM & the pivot into grungey no-chord, punk & new-wave .. "in crystal clear stereo". Do u remember they played the whole 18 mins of Dire Straights "Telegraph Road"? After Steely Dan, it all went to cr_p. Aja is a modern masterpiece/seriously good jazz-inflected pop & super-sly lyric-craft.

[@sharonjones9769]

One of The Greatest Albums of All Time !!!!!

[@ivellbullock784]

Yes. I definitely agree!!

[@jayoleary968]

The best studio/session band ever by far. Saw them once at Tangle Wood posing as "The New York City Jazz Review" what a surprise. Unbelievable, Truly.

[@marcy3127]

My go-to band, been a Dan fan since forever. ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 ❤️ 😍 💖

[@cleanslate2004]

They were probably the best studio group ever. A couple a player song writers running an agency for free lance artists, at least back then. These days their a hell of a live band to. Love them then & love them now.

[@batouttahell454]

Drummer Keith Carlock even did the stick click in the drum solo!!!!

[@Glehost]

Keith Carlock killing the Steve Gadd drums on this tune! Oh wait, the audio is the album version set to concert video. Very tricky. Nevertheless, Carlick can handle the Gadd part.

[@dagconst1]

Love to see a video with Steve playing this

[@markheller76]

Yep been a fan better part of 50 years and Every Song a gem. This one is diamond perfection and brothers and sisters I’ve been there and loved every minute. Hope there is a heaven and SD is the top bill with the Beatles and Ramones. Peace

[@thomaseliason8376]

When I die, I'm heading straight to the Roman Coliseum to watch Pink Floyd perform their "Pompeii" concert. So when you see that on DVD, know that my ghost is sitting there on one of the rocks the whole time.

[@TallulahBelle3276]

Pure excellence. 💯✨👍🏼👏🏼🎼💝

[@carloscisneros6379]

In my humble opinion, the most artistically crafted album of all time. I listened to this album out at sea aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln out in the middle of the Pacific.

[@mikewright549]

Just awesome. My favorite tune ever. Thank you so much for sharing this Thomas :) PS...I named my pleasure boat aja.

[@thomaseliason8376]

Aja is epic - in a class with Echoes and Supper's Ready IMHO.

[@phil8198]

A friend of mine named his daughter Aja. This album affected many people in many different ways!

[@johnfraser9137]

Come back Walter all is forgiven.

[@blmrgtr]

This intro is tough to top… Hooked up with Natalie MacMaster and her band after a Philly show they did 20 years ago… in their bus, the jokin’ around’n carousing stopped when a video this came on the big TV they had. All were transfixed, me included.

[@paulychannel7914]

Great work synching all that TKV! Definitely worth it for such a timeless classic from the DAN my man!!! ...... RESPECT

[@thomaseliason8376]

You are very kind.

[@zebfernandez]

@@thomaseliason8376 do you have the original audio of the live performance with Keith Carlock?

[@thomaseliason8376]

I'm sure I do, but it's not something I would post.

[@zebfernandez]

@@thomaseliason8376 it used to be up online but it has been taken down. Any chance you could post it as Unlisted and send the link please? 🙏👏

[@kevinoshea4134]

What an incredibly talented band with great songs

[@sandyburnett8366]

Neoexpectef you to huryme again