Do It Again - Steely Dan | The Midnight Special
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2025
- Steely Dan Performed on the show February 9, 1973
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As a 14 year old living in Podunk, USA, The Midnight Special was as close to live music as I could get. I was too young to drive, had no means to buy albums and no one to talk about music with, this show was my window to Rock and Roll. I was introduced to so many bands and performers across a wide variety of amazing genres forming a strong foundation for music within me.
Same here, growing up in Hawaii we of course had many radio stations that played Hawaiian music and top 40,the Midnight Special was like a whole other world,just awesome! Also years later I met Walter Becker from Steely Dan while surfing at a spot called Tavares Bay,he lived in the north shore town of Paia,Maui and would see him out in water on his boogie board!Aloha from Hawaii🤙🏽
Podunk or New York where I'm from, at 13 years old, this was like viewing another world. Shows like this got so many of us to buy our first guitars!
Same age here, exact same thoughts. Each week, watching this was like winning the music lottery.
😍
Same here. I got back from Nam and got married and we never missed a Midnight Special. Cheers from eastern TN
that is THE best live performance caught on camera i've seen by Steely Dan. This vid immortalizes the whole song.
The 1960's and especially the 70's had the best music. I'm so glad that I grew up during this era. At the age of 69 I still listen to and love Rock-'n'-roll.
The guy on the conga drums is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who was also a guitarist for Steely Dan for several years, and then went on to The Doobie Brothers and many other musical endeavors. I had no idea he was an accomplished conga drummer!
Yes and he also played with Linda ronstadt as well a great track is your no good 😊
Thanks! I was about to google him after seeing him play. Impressive!
And is now working for the department of defense! The guy can't be stopped!
And google why he's known as "skunk" it's not about weed 😊
And Rocket Scientist...
71 years old and still rocking here in central California. 😊
That guitar solo was incredible.
So awesome that the guy is barely seeing the fretboard lol
He's using a pick dude@@CasperLCat
Denny was/is a great guitarist
Skunk Baxter was better.
Denny Diaz is one of my favorite guitar players of all time.
I love the fact that on 'The Midnight Special', all performances were actually done live and not played to a track. Great stuff!
Not all. I've been watching all of them and some are canned and lip-synched. Which is ok, almost every show in the world did that but I do prefer the live ones.
@@honeychilerider
Almost all the early ones were live. Only in the late 70s did they start using videos and lip synching (the disco crap)
Yes it was Great because it wasn't lip synced it keep off pop posers and frauds off, only High Quality REAL bands appeared on the hey days of the Midnight Special.
@@honeychilerider The funniest lip-synched performance I've seen from the show was Hall and Oates in 1980. In some moments Daryl Hall didn't even try to sing into the microphone.
@@scottlarson1548 It's gotta be hard for bands to do that. It's funny because I thought lip-synching had become a thing when I was a teenager back in the 80s, I didn't realize it had been a thing almost as long as there was television.
look like Denny can play guitar in his sleep. cant get over the talent here !
He is absolutely outstanding on the guitar ❤
You just don't hear incredible songs like this today, timeless song thats always going to sound fresh
You certainly do hear incredible songs like this today. You just have to look for them. Check out King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Mild High Club, or Black Midi. Particularly King Gizzard if you're looking for something that sounds fresh since they have over 20 albums which all sound different from one another and from mainstream music.
There's also a lot of great hip hop being made these days, but I'm going to assume most Steely Dan fans don't like hip hop.
Nothing better than watching a band playing live with original material. So glad I grew up in the 60s and 70s when all this great music was made
One of the Greatest Songs Ever….
I still listen to it perhaps a hundred times a year; part of that stems from the fact that I can never listen to it just once. Even after 50 years I still can't listen to it just once, there are times I might listen for half an hour occasionally an hour, just over and over.
And that's why I come back, jack, and listen again.
One of the greatest acts ever
Yes I be 69 on march 7 ❤ 🎶
💯
I prefer Fagen's vocal to Palmer's but the latter does a good job. Baxter is unexpectedly fine on the congas! Dias is great on lead guitar. This is fricking 50 years old but the sounds (def not the duds) are so fresh!
Yeah, Fagen's voice had a little more bite to it. But at this point he had a bit of "stage fright".
@@kbrewski1 It's hard to imagine Fagen being terrified of being a lead singer, but he genuinely was! You can see him visibly shaking on Reelin' In The Years. And he spoke of it in early interviews. But he owns this song. I love Can't Buy A Thrill, but Palmer was best at what he did on that album. Imagine him taking on Fire In The Hole?? sacrilege! I think he clearly conquered that fear pretty quickly!
The original voice in the recording definitely owns this song.
is the guy on congas the same who played lead guitar on their previous appearances? looks similar.
@CJinsoo
Yes, its Jeff Skunk Baxter, one of the original founders of Steely Dan.
Simply outstanding. The 70s were a magical time indeed.
If I were in that audience, I wouldn't be able to sit still.
I dig. I rememeber watching this when I was 11 years old and grooving on it. Still can't figure out why anyone present was sitting down during it.
Me too.
Really cmon people you should be dancing especially to that song.
Things were different then.
I can imagine it's beyond your comprehension.
It is , it was a natural evolution. You're just lucky that you were born later, and entered the picture later.
Definitely. The Midnight Special was from an era where all the performers were the real deal and extremely talented no matter what genre of music. I miss those days. Today 95% of the music is total auto tune computer enhanced crap .
Ahhhhh, the 70s, a magiical time and glad I was able to see it, live it, and be part of it all.
And survive it
I did so much coke back then that I looked good but I am actually the orange-haired dude in this clip.
@@dufunia8313 So you are the singer?
The best of times. Great friends, great music & great memories.
@@bufordtjustice7015 yes
Remember when you could get actual entertainment on good old network TV? I remember as a teenager staying up to watch Midnight Special even though I was so tired that my eyes were burning.
Ah the good old days eh? I remember tuning into the Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert back in my pre-cable days. In the post-cable era, the show Night Flight made quite an impression on me as it featured music videos before MTV came around along with all sorts of off-the-wall content that I found pretty entertaining.
I'm so old. I wish I had a reason to stay up until midnight! :)
You mean when 90% of the shows were God awful playback "performances"?
You're watching this on youtube and still think you need network TV. TV is dead, the future is now. Enjoy it.
Times have changed. RUclips and other streaming is the new cable, so here's where you find the music too :)
one of the best solos for guitar in Steely Dan album
Strongly agree.
Cool that he just let it rip, hitting just a few of the signature riffs here and there. Didn't even miss the sitar guitar. We'll, maybe a little.
@@gtrguy5851 had you heard the song AJA steely dan, the solo guitar is Danny Diaz, as well Do it again
That's saying a lot. (Reeling in the Years, Bodhisattva, Kid Charlemagne, My Old School, .etc.
As is widely known this was Denny’s band - Donald and Walter just kinda stole it…
I was lucky to be teenager during this era. It is still hard to believe that quality music existed on network TV back in those days.
Good for you.
Yup great time for live music on broadcast TV
I always hated hearing Steely Dan on the radio as a kid in the 1980s, thought they were oldies. Now I love it.
Wow..50 years...gone ...in a blink...the 70's and its unique magic...👍👍
Ma jeunesse.Formidable morceau
Yeah, Cant really slow things down
The earth is spinning constantly 24/7. I belueve thats what ages us.😮😊😅 But we can still have a great time Jack.😊
Baxter on percussion? Priceless.
Back when I could come HOME....
With the munchies, sit on the floor wearing my Dads old army jacket and watch one of the three channels we had, toatally content with no worries.
I had it all, and didnt know it.
congratulations you have won my GOLD🏆Comment award Today..( I had it all and didnt know it)
you brought tears to my eyes.. just an old Hippy here at 68yo👏
aaaaaah those infamous munchies...
Those were good days my brother.
Really wish I'd been born in time for that.
We really did have it all, brother.
I’m 68 and I was fortunate to be in a Steely Dan concert back in the early 70s. Nothing like 70s rock
Forgot the year but I had great tix to see them at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, the a week or so before the show they cancelled and broke up for a good while.
Me too, in Brussels...
4 sure
I saw them in 1973 at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island NY
Very good example why the Midnight Special kicks ass. Great live performances up the wazoo. Everyone always gave it their all and played their ass off. Just amazing
Killer guitar solo by Denny Dias.
@dennydias-id5jh Likewise. If this is the real Denny Dias thanks for the great music and guitar playing over the years. You and Skunk Baxter were a great guitar duo in Steely Dan.
Sans the sitar effect.. (which I thought was very cool on the studio performance)
@glenstevenjohnson I always thought it was just middle pickup position but you pick the string by the bridge for that tone
Donald Fagan and Walter Becker are master legends. Their contributions to music are timeless and always get better with each listen.
All the Steely Dan albums are front to back classic material, and ditto for the solo albums. Their legacy is pretty much untouchable.
One of the best guitarists of all time.....on congos!! Awsome!!
Hahahaha. Ikr?
Yeah. I'm like. Jeff Baxter? Why the fuck is he playing congos?
@jasonbarton4521 making the song work lol
Somewhere you can find video of Skunk playing drums for Linda Ronstadt.
Skunk channeling his inner Ricky Ricardo!
Why was I born in 91. If you were around for when this came to earth, don’t take it for granted.
The Midnight Special and Don Kirchner's Rock Concert are treasures from yesterday. I'm glad RUclips is here.
No doubt about that! I'm with you
Every Friday night.
Midnight Special with host Wolfman Jack
@@michaelelliott1212 miss hearing Don telling you something about the band/ musician just before they would show play their set.
Yes!!!
Great lead guitar work by Denny Dias 🎸
Denny was a bad ass!
I love how he is hardly even looking at his fretboard as he plays!
He could play that solo in his sleep. Looked like he was trying to prove it in the video LOL. He was great though.
Man what guitar licks. He’s lost into his guitar world. Awesome!
He played most of his solo with his eyes closed!
Steely Dan was and still is one of my favorite session bands , along with Allen Parsons Project...
Or Alan
@@robertthomson2159 "I wouldn't want to be like you" - Alan Parsons Project
@ touche!
At 18 remembered hearing this song for the first time, nothing short of a classic
Teach your children, and your grandchildren, well, and make sure they realize that there were bands like SD creating such complex, interesting and incredible music.
I did my best at it, at least playing the music. My 22-year-old daughter will sometimes start singing along with a classic rock song and people will look at her and say,” how do you know that song.” She just replies, “My dad.“ I swell with pride anytime she says that.
Steely Dan are LEGENDS. 2025 anyone?
Denny Diaz such a great guitar player, deserved way more recognition.
Absolutely
He is smooth
The fact they where able to simply NAIL IT in all levels, and even so beign critical of their live sound, says it all of how amazing, tight and top notch Steely Dan was. Superb and Masterclass band
Denny Dias is criminally underrated. He made that solo look so easy.
For the longest time watching videos, I used to think that Danny Dias was Elott Randall. Then I would see Skunk Baxter playing the solo on Reeling in the Years and I was like, why isn’t Randall playing it. Deep.
I am fortunate enough to remember when songs like Do It Again were hits on AM radio .. Let that sink in - this was considered a pop song - and along some incredible other artists like Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, Tower Of Power and The Doobie Bros, this was the music of my childhood because it played on mainstream radio .... and of course, sneaking into the family room in the wee hours on Friday and Saturday nights to watch The Midnight Special and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert .... How times have changed
T.O.P. is still one of the best LIVE bands in the HISTORY of live performing acts...I have a recent concert on DVR with a young black singer....OMG, find it, you will freak out!
I disagree. This was their first release on AOR FM radio. 1972. Who knew that Steely Dan would become a mainstay on FM radio for the next decade? Still consider them one of the top ten bands of the 70’s.
I am fortunate enough to have access to all this great music and all thats been released since then at my fingertips. Times have changed for the better.
it's not the same, you'll never understand. 🙂@@ivegotpetercriss
@@ivegotpetercrissI’m no boomer, but let me point that there’s a difference between having access to good music like we have now and being completely surrounded by it everywhere you go in the 1970s. I wish I had a Time Machine to check it out.
It is with overwhelming gratitude to my older brother...thank you for turning me on to Can't Buy A Thrill. The beginning of a love affair with Steely Dan that continues to this day. I'm now 65, still listening 🎧🎶
My older sister. I'm 66. I was 16, you were 15. Best time for music that there has ever been. Also she turned me on to The Doobie Brothers with "The Captain and Me", which is my all-time favorite album. "Can't Buy A Thrill" is definitely one of the top 5 ever. Take good care (Medicare, that is lol), my brother in rock!
I did the same thing introduced my baby brother to doobies and steely dan
Best album can’t buy a thrill
This Channel is a complete treasure trove of live recordings! The Seventies music wise were the best decade.
70s is the best decade for the music 🎉
@timhoovermusicman i love it the music from 60s🤩 is amazing, but i love u more the music from 70s 😊
late 60s have a strong case but yeah probably one or the other. 90s had a nice boom but yeah nothing quite like this.
late 60's-70's & early 90's
THE BEST EVER! 70’s ROCK👍
Still a masterpiece in 2025
Indeed. This is a real great song!
Yes, since "day one" and again and again and again...
Absolutely 🎉
Indeed
Always will be!
Just here listening to good music. Don’t care what year it is.
South China Sea ... '73 ... cruisin & brusin' the "bad guys" off the USS KITTY HAWK ... good times ... memories ... Forever Brothers-in-Arms ... and I "survived" ... thanks God.
This is a long shot, but any chance you knew a Vic Mason?
Thank you sir.
The diff between this version and the studio recording show what a perfectionist Donald Fagan was
Fagen looking,exasperated at his Tom-Toms at the end of the performance, and gesticulating at them angrily really says it all... 🤣
I prefer this live version to the original studio version
Bass seems heavier here, I love it!
Seems like he sings on the wrong key or not quite right and seems Fagen is not happy with it. Actually Fagen's voice is much better for me.
THAT WAS GREAT!
Dudes cooking at the 222 mark . Locked in nothing will stop the energy . Legend has it hes still jamming
Denny Dias played some wonderful guitar with Steely Dan in the 70s, his solo on Bodhisattva especially is a work of technical mastery. An often forgotten member of the original band. Thanks for the upload.
I love him so much.
that guitar solo was otherworldly!! dude locked in and just enjoyed the space
Walter Becker was a genius.
50 years ago crazy. Steely Dan always had an amazing fusion sound and famous guest band members.
Carl Wilson's solo at 2:22 is epic. He is so locked in. So mesmerized in that moment , Could he be "Wishing They All Could Be California Girls?"
Lmfao
lol 😂
lmaooo
Fantastic band, very intelligent musicians who could weave our neurons a tale. LOVE.
I used to think this was a Santana song 😂
@@DarthTerminatti Did you really? Haha! I love Santana too 😉
Because of the congas, esé?
Denny Días is a monster talent.
As a conga player for over 50 years I love this so much.
David Palmer’s voice was just so damn good.
It’s so rare to find truly Great Singers like McCartney, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Richard Manuel, Bono, Dion DiMucci…
Who have that “Pretty but Gritty” sound to their Voice.
So true
The 70s were the best times.
I wish I was a teenager of the 70's, that would have been something. I only got a sense of what I missed, growing up in the 80's.
Music-wise. It started out great with all sorts of bands and genres, but by decades' end you could tell it was going downhill.
@@charlesnwarren That's fair, but the first seven years of the 70s music is unparalleled
@@user-br2gi8kh5s Sure, and on every imaginable level. Then again, it's an object lesson in how nothing lasts forever. I think the Rock/Pop Genre was done by '77.
60s were good too. Those were good times.
Love it! No auto tune or lip syncing. Not perfection, just pure talent!
I remember driving in the family station wagon in the 70s listening to Dan. That was 50 years ago.
I look at this video and think to myself self I’m Older now then they were when this was written. I’m 56. Man how time flies
Skunk on the congas. He just drives the hell out of this song. Fantastic band!!!
This songs creamy mixture of instruments is almost hypnotic and the lyric tell tale songs today just don't do anymore. One of the greatest songs in music history.
All the camera shots are right on the money. Too many TV shows had the wrong player featured at the wrong time. TMS has all the right angles and the right camera switches. 👍👍
I would have liked to see more straight ahead stage shots so we could see all the musicians playing (poor Walter is in there somewhere), a lot of rear shots from behind,but just good to have these Dan performances at all from the early 70s.
No drummer or bass guitarist, eh? Shame on you!
@garion333
Who you talking to? Becker is playing bass behind Skunk Baxter on congas. The drummer they showed multiple times playing, his drum kit is right in the center. That's Jim Hodder. They didn't show his face.
@@kbrewski1 Shoot, yeah, my reply was meant for the original comment, not yours.
Rare footage of David Palmer singing lead on Tv for Steely Dan. Donald Fagan famously had stage anxiety back then but eventually Fagan did take over all lead vocals. But I do love Palmer's lead vocal on Dirty Work.
Putting this song & driving threw East L.A., hell yeah! 😎
That guitar solo is all full of heart & soul
My mind was just a little bit blown to see Jeff Baxter absolutely owning those congos. Brilliant performance all around!
Wow! Never heard this before with Palmer on lead vocals.
Whenever Fagen comes in as a backing vocalist it's so jarring. Where were you the rest of the song?
Stage fright for Fagan.
thanks as I didn't know who this guy was....
Dave Palmer was amazing
RIP Jim Hodder! One helluva drummer and the first in a long line of talented Dan drummers!
Jim Gordon - Jeff Porcaro - RIP.
And he sings Midnight Crusier. Top five Dan song, for me.
Dam I loved listening to music in my car in the 70's with tunes like these
thanks for everything, so many great acts of that special era.... you guys totally captured some of the best live performances ever with the best production crew, way ahead of there time
My favorite channel on RUclips. Being a child of the 70's, this is my favorite decade for music. These performances are absolute treasures.
It doesn’t seem possible that Denny Dias could play like he did holding his picking hand in that position. That’s precision!
Agreed! His playing is amazing on this performance. And he does it with his eyes closed! I am not sure if he always picks so far away from the pickups but it really makes the sound special, like a cross between a guitar and electric sitar!
As much as he's picking he's using his arm to press the guitar body into his for that precise balance.
@@vindas777 That sitar sound is an electronic effect. The best place to pick any stringed instrument is in the middle of the string, where it has the widest vibrations and string feel.
Pickups only go so far up the neck, stuck at the end, but your picking technique doesn't have to.
If you want a sitar sound, try playing a guitar upside-down. Play up and down the G string with B and E as drones. Using D with G, B and E drones is more like a zither.
@@johnwattdotca I understand how pickups work but thanks for the explanation. I need to point out to you that on the recording it is most certainly an electric sitar NOT an effect. This performance is of course on an electric guitar, which to my ear sounds like it only has some reverb and distortion. He is making the sound with his fingers.
@@vindas777 Others are calling it a sitar sound, and there is something else going on beyond reverb and distortion. I'd call it a plinky sound. Pretzel Logic featured the first guitar synths that really fooled me, knowing the studio pros involved, and it's one of the reasons the band couldn't perform live, at the time. A friend of mine from another city bought the electric sitar when it was auctioned off at Electric Ladyland. Talking about sounding like a sitar is just about the sound. Playing one is very different, because we grew up with twelve notes per octave, and Indian music begins with seventeen.
That rhythm section is just so incredibly deep, ticking off the measures like a steam powered airplane
A steam powered airplane sounds like a very inefficient death trap. 😂
Have a good day friend ✌️
Denny looks like a reincarnated Jim Morrison who came back from the afterlife with Hendrix's wardrobe and guitar chops. I watch this video all the time just to hear his guitar solo. It's mesmerizing.
I'll be 35 this year and I thank my father for getting me into this music. Steely Dan will rock forever.
Your father has good taste in music.
A true classic by Steely Dan that has stood up well over the years.
Always loved David Palmer on some of the songs. "Dirty Work" classic good. He's great here.
Before digital, we were growing up to a totally different sound- lucky us! 🌎✌
Saw this line up open for Elton John in September of 1973.
They opened for Elton John? Well, that's messed up, considering how Steely Dan would've been the much better act.
It’s not a competition, but Elton John owned the charts in the early 70s.
Interesting. After the Captain Fantastic album, Elton fired his bass player and drummer. He wanted a more rock sound. At this point, he now had two lead guitarists, but for the tour, he brought Baxter along as a third lead guitarist. He certainly would have brought a more hard rock sound to the band. Your comment certainly explains how Elton knew Skunk Baxter
David's voice was so marvellous while he was with the band. I especially loved Dirty Work. Swoony.😊
Dirty work. Favorite song on that entire album
Man The Commodores rock live... ❤ Funk to the max, great drum and bass... ❤
David Palmer best singer of Do It Again. No one else comes close
I grew up listening to this song on the radio. Hadn't heard it for a while. Then I heard the into on the radio recently...this song sounded better than ever. An absolutely monster song. I didn't realize how much this song influenced my life. I'm glad I have the greatest music ever made embedded in my soul.
Goodness that Tele is gorgeous and the tone produced is truly magnificent! Everyone here plays their part so well, what a song.
At 16 in 1979 I was hooked on Steely Dan…
Legendary song. So many elements that would be classic 70’s.
Kudos,to the Midnight Special, for putting on amazing talent like this🎉🎉.It needs to be showcased 🎉🎉.This is exactly what rock and roll sounds like 🎉🎉. They are legendary 🎉🎉
Yes... "Do It Again"... I need it! 🙆♀️
Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖
Thanks for stirring up my memory bank. I vividly remember watching this episode!
Good times never to be repeated. The music was amazing!
Was Surprised to find and know who was behind that beautiful voice ,after 50 years
Thank you David Palmer for your music
I first saw this about 40 years ago. Remember being mesmerised by Denny’s guitar solo. Still fresh today.
What a guitar solo! Like he could have gone on forever - amazing flow. Ben Eunson's playing reminds me of this flow.
Wish I grew up back then. Steely Dan's music and timing is so incredible. Can't Buy a Thrill is one of my favorite albums. This remastered live video from The Midnight Special is so good! Just visited Vegas for my friend's bachelor party 2 weeks ago and I was blasting this song all weekend. The lyrics were all too relevant. I was glad to get out of that city until I go back and do it again 😂My best friends and I also saw Steely Dan live at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix on 05/31/22 which was basically a year ago, today! Crazy how the timing on all this has worked. That is still one of the best concerts I have ever seen. This is real music and real talent!
Skunk on the conga drums, oh yeah..🔥🔥🔥2nd favorite from The Dan. ✨Steely Dan✨
This is why the older generation doesn't brag about our music.
Because it's music for real
And by honest ta God real musicians.
Heart and soul and talent can't be replaced
Vous avez tout expliqué.
Pourquoi chercher alors qu'on avait tout au niveau musique ?
Remember hearing this in the 70s as a child it is just timeless 🎶🇨🇦🙏
The guy on the congas was wicked.
skunk baxter.
Wicked on the guitar, as well. Played for the Doobie Brothers later. On guitar, that is.
Such a great song. Great performance.
Oh man I was 23. Had 2 beautiful sons and rocking out to these amazing guys😎
I may not share the same sense of nostalgia as many here, but listening to this music transports me to a place where i can bond with my parents in the shared experience of hearing great music. I imagine what they must have been like at the time and their parents too. No phones or many cameras. I'm jealous sometimes
The days when you could have British teeth and still be a mega star
David is a Jersey boy, as in New USA, not the English island.
@@kevind7422 are you familiar with the term, “British teeth”? It refers to the stereotypically misaligned and crooked teeth many Britons have. My statement wasn’t saying that the singer himself was British, but that he has teeth like a stereotypical British person. Also, it was a joke.
Shall I 'Ha' or 'Whinny'?
I prefer to focus on the art and presentation of a performer rather than judgements about personal appearances. Guess it's just a me thang.
@@kevind7422 that was my point. This was from a time when the music was more important than the artist’s appearance.
The big book of British smiles 😂
I was there for every episode / event. I am still enthralled. Thankyou.