Great choices! Great playing! It's definitely quite a challenge to narrow them down to five, even eight with your honorable mentions. Thanks for putting in the considerable amount of work to do this and for sharing it - very fun to watch and hear!

Well done! Love Steely Dan!

Denny and Skunk were a terrific team up. I love the solo on Boston Rag. Back in the day, as a guitarist discovering the band for the first time, Boston Rag grabbed me and threw me into the water 😂

Is there nothing you can't play? Brilliant work!

Wow Kelly. I have returned to the fold after being gone for a while. You inspired me when I took guitar back up and now I'm 1/20th as good as you. I don't think I'll catch up.

Great video! My Old School is probably my 2nd favorite after Rikki.

Simply incredible ! Love this ! Thank you

Thank you so much. Brings Dan back....

Superb work Kelly, thank you again and again!

Fantastic Kelly, What a way to start the day...Thank you.

Thanks for bringing in "Bodhisattva" - my hands-down, number 1 favorite solo on any rock album ever. I can't fault you for "Peg" or "Kid Charlemagne" - outstanding, but to me, Bodhisattva has them beat due to the interplay over the chord changes, the turn arounds and the exchange with the bass line.

Nicely done, Sir. Excellent!

Incredible job on these sir!

Welp Kelly ya did it again,nice job and credit for your determination to get these creations done so well thanx Kelly!

Well well, posted 3 hours ago, and already 13 comments and 52 likes, very nice, your amazing talent is being recognized! Great solos and of course great renditions, too! Thank you and an honorable mention to your finger tips 😁. Cheers!

Awesome episode KDA! So many favourites to choose from, but Reelin' In the Years just has a special spot with me

All great - but I think we NEED to add "Any Major Dude". The solo might be short, but it's simply un-f'n-believable!

I thought Larry sounded a little unconvincing trying to rock on Guitar 5. All his other stuff is more accomplished. I also feel number 3 is by far the best in the catalog. All 5 are pretty damn good! When you hear the milkman whistling your song, as a Beatle said, you know it's memorable. When the the general public can hum for quite an extended period of time, a guitar solo, you have "something to say" to quote Les Paul. The public can hum the Reelin' in the Years solo. P.S. - Outstanding playing.

Your hard work really paid off. Well done! I love your taste in music. My dad introduced me to Steely Dan back in the 70's. I was lucky to have been raised with diverse music in our household. Thanks for sharing!

That was fun, thank you! I subscribed! If I ever pick up the guitar again, I will give a listen to your great channel.

Fantastic playing!

I've been tabbing Reelin in the years, I like your chromatic approach to the starting phrase, I was sliding it... otherwise identical on both our tabs. Nice work on this video!! Guitar soloing from actual musicians is so much more than the dime a dozen mechanical shredder solos out there.

Wow!! I been playing guitar for 45 years and still cannot pull off all those SD solos!! Awesome video you did 👍😎

Superb!

Great video, thanks

Great work, well played Kelly

You are a boss, sir. That was enjoyable.

For me, best is Danny Diaz's amazing "Do It Again" solo. One of the hardest solo's I have ever learned, that bloody timing is fierce !

Brilliant playing sir.

Excellent! Also, bringing back my childhood days of the early to mid 70’s!

Steely Dan has some of the best guitar work in existence. The only one of these that I’ve learned in its entirety is Kid Charlemagne, which is a beast, and as you said, Larry Carleton’s mastery of playing beautiful melodies over complex chord changes is unmatched. I wish you had done the outro as well; it’s also awesome and shows Larry playing great stuff over less demanding changes.

Amazing solos, you are an incredible guitar player

Great choices, I doubt anyone would argue about Kid Charlemagne being the top solo. I also love Denny Dias' playing on Bodhisattva amongst others. Many thanks for your upload. PS Katy Lied was from 75 not 79.

*KILLER!* _Nailed it!_ 🎸😮🤘Gotta guve it up for "Bodhisattva," to boot! 💪🤠💡

Don’t take me Alive is the greatest intro ever. Kelly 61K followers. Well done. The funny thing about Steely Dan is they would have 4 or 5 guitarist come in and lay a solo down. Some of them never knew if any of their work would get picked.

Let’s do this again…and again! Well done

Kid Charlie!! Been trying to play that for about 4 years now! Defeltifly difficult. Great job!!

dude you absolutely nailed this one; the only omission for me would be the 'do it again' sitar sounding deal as an honorable mention...anyway you killed it brother; blessings alwayzz brother

fav band from my much younger days and still the tunes sound enjoyable - great playing as always - too clever

Please do more of these!

Absolutely NAILED “Don’t Take Me Alive” !!

Surprised not to see the solo(s) from "My old School". But then there are so many fantastic guitar solos in S-D's songs!

Anybody who knows anything about Steely Dan and guitar solos would say Denny Diaz solo in Do It Again is by far the best Steely Dan solo and one of Rock and Rolls best solos ever

‘Aja’ is pronounced with a long A for the first syllable: aye jah. Like it’s sung in the song. Fagen pronounces ‘Bodhisattva’ : bow dis at vah

#3 was the #1 solo

Good stuff! When you have finished transcribing the other solos, perhaps you can do a tutorial of each of them this summer. Would be great and fun! 👍🏻🎸🖖🏻

Way to peg Peg..... Great list...missed a few... Then they recieved honorable mention Excellent playing per usual...KDA

My Friday has started off Rocking😊

As someone going through Bodhisattva at the moment there is a serious lack of lessons on how to get to all those notes in the solo, but honestly the whole song is a blast to play through on guitar. Denny Dias just throws so many notes at you that it's hard to remember. So yeah a tutorial on that one and My Old School would be amazing

Of course the playing was stellar but you nailed the tones…well done my man 👍

I love your video. And you're playing as well. There are so many to choose from that any five people might have five lists. Personally, my favorite is the background guitar and solo in the new frontier. Yes that's Fagen Not steely Dan. Still, I'd like to see what you could do with that noodling relaxed yet highly focused guitar part. Sounds acoustic, but I doubt that it is.

When it comes to Stealy Dan. They just blow you away with their chord work. I have many many song books of different bands. And you may find maybe 4 chords in the songs. Stealy will have 15 or more.

F'ing awesome...

And once again you play them flawlessly!! Bravo 👏 Did I mention how much I hate you 😂😂😂 Fantastic as always ❤

Nice. My old school?

Don’t Take me Alive Rikki Don’t Lose That Number Reelin in the Years Peg Kid Charlemagne

Waiting for my old school 🤗

Good job. You're the hardest working guy on KZfaq. Any idea on how to add bookmarks below to divide things up?

Did one of those guitars say "This machine kills fascists" on it? Great tribute to Woody.

Interesting bit of trivia on the Elliot Randall, Reelin' in the Years intro solo. What's on the record is the 2nd take. Elliot said he did a better take on his first try, but they thought he was just warming up and didn't hit Record. Oops! Wouldn't it be cool to hear that 1st take?!

What backing tracks are you playing against or are you just muting the lead guitar track? Great tutorial!!!!!

Make a part 2 video with 5 more!

I’ve been working on “Do it Again” off and on for about 5yrs…still don’t have it😡

Hey Kelly do you know what pedal was used for that sound on really in the years for the guitar solo?

Not wanting to take anything away from Larry Carleton who is absolutely amazing …However….The #1 (IMHO) should be the solos from “My Old School”

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Bo-dih-ZAHT-va

What about Bodhisattva ? ;-)

Jay Gradon is the best track

3 is number 1 and the one you have at one shouldn't even be on a list. Simply too many notes.

I think it must have been really difficult to pick 5 best. But i won't disagree