I'm 24 years old. Call me the "next generation of appreciation" or whatever, I'm just letting you all know I'll be listening to Steely Dan, Zappa, and King Crimson for the rest of my life. Already seen Steely Dan twice. So grateful man. Some people will never get to see Donald or Walter. I didn't even get to see Walter. love all the famous studio musicians. I believe Jon Herington (if that's right) Randy Lawson, Keith Carlock, you name it. Thank you, Skeevy Daniel.

This was when Fagan’s voice was at its best, for me.

I own one of Walter's old top hats, I will treasure it forever until I pass it on RIP Mr. Becker, there will never be another SD.

Me. At 64. Since ‘Can’t Buy A Thrill’…. What true artistry , craftsmanship, and wry humor on top…. Why I’m still playing guitar- trying to figure out those Mu major chords will challenge and teach anyone!!!😁….Much love for all things SD!

We need a box set of remixed and remastered rarities now!! C'mon Donald and co, make it happen before we all die!

RIP Jim Hodder

The alternate take of Midnight Cruiser is something else! wow!

Gullywater!! Not since I heard the sick intro from the Santa Monica pier in 72 have I been so torched!!! 🎉

Sakka Jaweda definately got change of the guard and Rose Darlin vibe ...he stolllle his own melody 😄 awesome

I swear "Stay There" is just Skunk telling Walter or Denny where to hang on a guitar chord, it's so cute. Thank you for this collection!

Note how 'Megashine City' was later reharmonized w/ sus4 chords, played in half time/different groove (minus the original title words in the lyrics) and remade as/renamed 'Talking 'Bout My Home', for the Lost Gaucho Sessions and Outtakes. Thanks for sharing.

Finally.. more Steely Dan Outtakes! There had to be more!

best band ever...

Really sad that sakka didn’t make it, really amazing vibe !

One of my all-time favorite Bands. They are spectacular!

Midnight cruiser was awesome! I like this version better than the record!

I just fell asleep during Any World.. and my mind created a weird movie montage to it lol

A lot of these outtakes are surprisingly more rock oriented at this point un their career. Great stuff Skeevy

What Becker & Fagen and producer Gary Katz did from demo to finished product on "Katy Lied's" "Any World" is just stunning. Michael McDonald's voice and Michael Omartian's piano obviously had a lot to do with it, as did the dynamic drumming of Wrecking Crew veteran Hal Blaine.

Only the Dan could have such an absolute gem of a vocalist in stixman Jim Hodder and spread his magnificence so thinly across their considerable repatoire , with only Midnight Cruiser and Dallas receiving the polishing cloth .

This was quite a surprise! Never knew this existed! Got 3-4 cds with another complete set of different ones. Some of these tracks are really good. We need to get audio people on these old recordings for re-release. And yes, the song Dallas as well.

So many great ideas, the nascence of much genius. How it grew!

Thanks, Skeevy.

In Gullywater, "I don't care about your dead souls"....a literary reference to the 19th century Russian writer Gogol and his short bleak (think Russian & it's an accurate descriptor) novella "Dead Souls"

This is awesome! Thanks for posting it. Almost like an alternate debut album

“Any world” sounds like it would be from that movie they did the soundtrack for.

Love the classic SD-ism at 16:06.

They took out and replaced the lines ending with the line "just another scurvy brother" on the bridge in Sign in Stranger, when they played it live, and changed "Retha Franklyn" to Otis Redding on Hey Nineteen'

Fabulous 🎼 thanks 💕👌

Thank You!!!!

Awesome. Thanks for sharing it’s always amazing to see how their songs evolved and how their creativity changed things. Some really good cuts here been listening since her do it again on the radio when it first came out. Nice to hear a few other things it was in their wheelhouse at the time.

Steely Dan é Demais !! 🤙😁

Well I’m sure glad they ended up waiting to put out Any World. This version is nice, but I definitely prefer the slower version. Interesting to see the song is relatively unchanged, though

Shared with the Steely Dan group on FaceBook.

I appreciate you Skeevy

Wowed once again 🖖🏼

I know that Becker & Fagen disliked their first single release, "Dallas," but after hearing a promotional copy in the listening library at Ohio's Bowling Green State University in the fall of 1974 I made sure I bought Poco's 1975 album, "Head Over Heels," just so I could play their gorgeous version of "Dallas" whenever I wanted. At the time they were labelmates with Steely Dan at ABC/Dunhill Records.

Is there a little 'King Of The World' in 'Gullywater' or am I crazy?

...maybe add 'Everyone's Gone To The Movies' demo....;-)

new skeevy daniel upload

Gullywater' could have fit right in w/ the repertoire of the unreleased album by Wicked Lester - the rather stylistically eclectic band that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley had before they went into Heavy Rock mode and founded Kiss. Two songs that have yet to resurface are 'Take My Money' and 'Hell Bound Train' , which along w/ 'Megashine City' are tunes Becker and Fagen wrote essentially as vehicles for original lead singer David Palmer. 'Megashine City' eventually found its way into the 'Lost Gaucho' set of demos, as 'Talkin' About My Home'. 7:50 -Producer Gary Katz's 'That's real good!'. 7:53 - This early intro to 'Any Word...'rather reminiscent of Carol King's "I Feel The Earth Move', which came out in 1971, roughly a year before these demos.

Damn this is rare

Midnite Cuiser steals the show of course it should given it made the final cut on C.B.A.T , curiously DALLAS & SAIL THE WATERWAY which would have been seamless additions were presumably deemed inferior and still have yet to be included on cd compilations .

For fun and speculation I think the song Running Child could have been sold on as a pop hit circa their pre SD period. I could easily imagine that on American pop radio around late 1960s. I'm thinking Brill building? Im probably showing my ignorance here😮

Running Child is certainly a proto-Barrytown

Megashine contains bits of Black Friday

Is it me, or should carole King cover Any World? It's like I can here her voice in my head..

Major SD fan since 1976, but in the last few weeks KZfaq has been recommending lots of outtakes and alternative versions like this that I've never heard before. "And where my feet touch ground, that's where I'll settle down." D&W obviously didn't like that lyric! BTW, is the photo an alternative album cover? The girls outside the hotel appear to be pursuing a profession that is a constant SD theme. Great stuff!

'Saka Jaweda...My Friend...' They later re-used that same idea in much better form as 'Rose Darling... My Friend!' 7:52 - the piano intro to this early version of 'Any World...' sounds a bit like Carole King's classic 'I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet', from her classic 1971 megahit album 'Tapestry'.

Hmm

Where’d you get the source image they used for the cover?! Great find!

great stuff!!! Where can I d'load????

What? no Everyone's gone to the movies demo?

21:11 - REM should have covered this

Gully water wasn't on the album why>?

its almost another album....

Was that Walter singing in the background at the start of Gullywater?

What's with those wild and unchained but still slightly groovy timbale runs at the end of 'Gullywater'? Far out!

Why not replace Sakka Joweda with Turn that heartbeat over again?

The really good time seeing 'Skunk' wailing at the earliest few shows make me wonder WHY S Dan bothered with that Citizen SD Box when it was basically barren except for a few seconds of intro/outro notes on the 2-3 tunes which were treated with that amount of 'attention'. If anyone's ever sourced more obscure matters to build on- or around - in song- I've never heard of such a bipedal source of amazement . 'Hey, let's do a song about Sacagawea? Everyone knows that story & it's time is due? Plus, as re N. England's First Nations, we'll surely win over the people on whose lands we stole or inherited from those who did! It'll be taken well by all sides as respectful & maybe we'll be able to grant some of the royalties to NARF in Boulder Co who stand proud before the Supreme Court & have been on the winning side even though they've argued against the same land stealing machine as sits in lopsided judgement!’ 'I dunno, it doesn't seem to have very much to say about the Four Corners or Big Mountain land grabbing areas of fact.' 'Well count it in Jimmy & we'll see what happens..'

Not a fan of this tape. Glad they cleaned it up in the studio.

man those are some fine chicks up there on the street...........meow

Pretty decent musicians…