Steely Dan: "My Old School" live on The Midnight Special, 1973.8.31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCX635Z7_PE

Before retiring prematurely from live performance during their first decade, the Dan never shone so brightly via telecast as when belting out this uptempo, energized, live rendition of "Countdown to Ecstasy's" second single, shorn of its studio brass and cowbell -- a rock song complicated by second-guessed flourishes and stingingly splendiferous guitar solos perfectly picked by Jeff Baxter.

No few late Boomers and early Xers assumed that this was one of several rock songs treating of a formative verity (school SUCKS A FAT COCK) in the vein of A. Cooper's "School's Out." In actuality, it's about how Donald Fagen was busted in 1969 for dealing drugs while attending Bard College, shaved by the local cops, and crucified by an assistant district attorney (none other than G. Gordon Liddy!).

Incidentally he DID go back in '85 when conferred with an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.