Rikki don't lose that numberMy Old SchoolDo It Again
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Third World ManHaitian DivorceThe Fez
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway, "Peg."
"Your Gold Teeth 2."
"Kid Charlemagne."
And yeah, "Green Earrings" has an ace solo. I also admire the way the solo on "Rikki" leads back into the vocal.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I really super love the solo in time out of mind
anyone seen the making of documentary for aja? they talk about the different guitarists they went through trying to get a good solo on peg. (and play a couple i think)
― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Their version of "East Saint Louis Toodle-Doo" is one of the best guitar tracks ever though.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
1. I Got the News2. Green Earrings3. Kid Charlemagne
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Sunday, 15 May 2005 08:11 (eighteen years ago) link
"Kid Charlemange" is by far and away my favorite guitar solo, by anyone, ever. Even among Dan solos it stands out. I used to play in a bar band and we did this song, and I always played it note for note because it was too perfect to mess with.
I think Royal Scam is their hottest guitar album in general. Even little moments like the echoing lines during the verses in "Sign in Stranger" are great.
PS: Best Steely Dan guitar solo in a non-SD song: Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" (Baxter).
― Keith C (kcraw916), Sunday, 15 May 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 15 May 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Bodhisattva (Denny Dias) - I've always loved this sort of "epic" 60-seconds give-or-take solo that starts off fairly simplistic and straightforward rhythmically, then grows more convoluted, alternately racing and chasing the tempo, threatening to fall apart entirely, then miraculously resolving itself at the exact proper moment.
Reeling In The Years (Elliot Randall) - Similar to an abbreviated "Bodhisattva", but even more reckless, if anything.
My Old School (Skunk Baxter) - Huge clumps of gnarled chord-clusters and fat handfuls of strings: the audio equivalent of a small animal chewing its own trapped leg off.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Monday, 16 May 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
revived, cause ive come to the conclusion that the guitar(S) in "king of the world" is the best recorded guitar playing ever. argue, if you dare..
― Zeno, Monday, 15 October 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
(though it's not a guitar solo)
I was just listening to "My Old School" today and realizing that the guitar solo on that really smokes, which I'd never noticed before.
Good to see some "King Of The World" love on here, I've said on several threads before that it's just about my favorite SD song.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
SO many great ones; like, all of them! But I'll go with:Bodhisattva (Denny Dias) - I've always loved this sort of "epic" 60-seconds give-or-take solo that starts off fairly simplistic and straightforward rhythmically, then grows more convoluted, alternately racing and chasing the tempo, threatening to fall apart entirely, then miraculously resolving itself at the exact proper moment.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, May 16, 2005 3:01 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This is some very good stuff...we should have a thread for most eloquent, perceptive posters and good examples of their things
Anyway, anyone know why tonight's show was postponed?
Oh yeah,Your Gold Teeth IIKid CharlemagneRikki Don't Lose.... (unjustly unsung, short and so sweet)
― iago g., Thursday, 30 July 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
night by nightreeling in the yearsalso want to pick something from aja since it's such a classy record, so i'm going to opt for... home at last
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Change of the Guard"
― J (Jay), Sunday, May 15, 2005 5:44 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark
yes this fucking slays. having an SD night tonight.
― gosamosapodin simgibmelreel (some dude), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
not enough "third world man" love on here!
― original bgm, Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i listened to TWM a few minutes ago and did not notice the guitar solo, nor have i ever
― gosamosapodin simgibmelreel (some dude), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
third world man forever and ever
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I've gone on boringly about "Third World Man" long enough in other Dan threads, but, I confess, I haven't noticed the solo. The main guitar HOOK on the other hand...
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
'everything you did' solo needs more love
― jabba hands, Saturday, 22 January 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"Third World Man" is so fucking progressive
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
er sorry I meant "King of the World"!
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I am not the first person to do that on this thread!!
there's no way I could narrow it down to just a threesome.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Bad Sneakers (RIP Walter)BodhisattvaYour Gold Teeth II
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
there are way too many to choose from, could've gone for My Old School, Boston, RagKid Charlemagne, Green Earrings (solo 1), Reelin In The Years, Change of the Guard, I Got The News, Josie, Peg, TWM, list goes on
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
RikkiMy Old SchoolKid Charlemagne
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
My Old School for sure
is that Skunk or Becker?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
It's Skunk, Becker plays bass on that and most everything on Countdown and Can't Buy a Thrill
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
Becker started playing more guitar after Katy Lied.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
The solo on The Royal Scam really blazes, though it's very short and simple. I love that opening pull off lick.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
It's always cool, and one of the jazziest things about the Dan, how the guitar solos (mostly in the later albums) lay on top of totally different chord progressions than the verses and chorus.
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Yeah, good point.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
ctrl + f "kings"0 results
wtf???
Apart from that one, I'd go with Gold Teeth II and Bad Sneakers
― J. Sam, Sunday, 10 September 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
1. Green Earrings - 2nd solo (Elliott Randall)2. Haitian Divorce - any of them (Dean Parks and Walter Becker)3. Glamour Profession - ending (Steve Kahn)
― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 September 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
PegPegPeg
― calstars, Sunday, 10 September 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
Haitian Divorce one of the most hilarious solos ever
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 10 September 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
"Aja" (the song). Isn't it technically impossible to play? And Denny Dias had to overdub himself in order to get it right?
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 11 September 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link