Steely Dan ~ Change Of The Guard ~ Can't Buy A thrill (HQ Audio)

A Fagen & Becker song (with David Palmer as fellow lead vocalist with Fagen) from their debut album. I had no idea that the cover art for their debut album was initially censored in Spain along with the song "Dirty Work". Just found that out & stuck the substituted Spanish cover up for trivia's sake 🙂 Enjoy the full album on my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfGibfZATlGq9jnvz7I1gw5Xp_FYMQ60p I am not paid by YT, so please like & subscribe. Thank you. (Lyrics & album info below). If you listen, you can hear it It's the laughter in the street It's the motion in the music And the fire beneath your feet All the signs are right this time You don't have to try so very hard If you live in this world You're feelin' the change of the guard All you cowboys and your neighbors Can you swallow up your pride? Take your guns off, if you're willin' And you know we're on your side If you wanna get through the years It's high time you played your card If you live in this world You're feelin' the change of the guard If you wanna get through the years It's high time you played your card If you live in this world You're feelin' the change of the guard Songwriters: Donald Jay Fagen / Walter Carl Becker Change of the Guard lyrics © Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group Guitar Solo: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. [Fagen told the Los Angeles Free Press in 1972, “We had a lot of strange material that no one could do. Until just now, when we found these people who were able to play it and make it sound like music. For some reason, we had a lot of trouble finding musicians all those years.” Katz suggested guitarist Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder. Becker and Fagen added jazz guitarist Denny Dias, who they’d met while working in New York. The core of the band in place, and with a name borrowed from William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Steely Dan was born. At this point, they were looking for a singer, they’d found that the idiosyncratic material was a struggle for most vocalists, as Fagen told MOJO, “[The songs] have to be performed with a certain attitude, and we couldn’t find the right singer when we started. I became the singer by default because I was the only one with the right attitude, essentially, even though I didn’t consider myself a singer at the time.” Indeed, the band’s debut single, “Dallas” and Can’t Buy A Thrill’s “Midnite Cruiser” featured drummer Hodder on lead vocals while singer David Palmer was brought in for the Can’t Buy A Thrill sessions, eventually contributing lead vocals to “Dirty Work” and “Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)” and backing vocals elsewhere. But while Fagen might not have meant to be a frontman, his nasal sneer worked so perfectly on hit singles “Do It Again” and “Reelin’ In The Years” that he became the only choice for the role.] ~ Jamie Atkins (2023) Can't Buy A Thrill Musicians: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – guitar, pedal steel guitar, spoken Spanish (the end of track 5) Walter Becker – electric bass guitar, co-lead vocals (10), backing vocals Denny Dias – guitar, electric sitar Donald Fagen – piano, electric piano, plastic organ (YC-30), lead vocals (all except 2,4,8), backing vocals Jim Hodder – drums, percussion, lead vocals (4), backing vocals David Palmer – lead vocals (2,8), co-lead vocals (5,9,10), backing vocals Additional Musicians: Elliott Randall – lead guitar (3,6) Victor Feldman – percussion Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone (2) Snooky Young – flugelhorn (2) Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews, Venetta Fields – backing vocals (3,8)