Reeling in the years, the genre-leaping band strikes a winning balance between punch and precision, fire and finesse Originally published on Aug. 22, 2013 By George Varga UTSanDiego.com Let’s hear it for the band! In this case that would be the three-woman, eight-man band puts the steel, and the musical punch and precision, in Steely […]
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Concert Review: Steely Dan
Originally published on Aug. 12, 2013 By Michael Deeds Idaho Statesman BOISE, Idaho — Near the end of Steely Dan’s two-hour set last night at the Idaho Botanical Garden, singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen finally acknowledged what most of the 3,579 fans already knew: That he and musical partner Walter Becker had never performed in Boise during […]
Steely Dan: Reeling in the Gigs
Originally published on Aug. 8, 2013 By Kevin Friedman Portland Oregonian Is Steely Dan the greatest band of all time? Is Steely Dan even a band? If so, what kind of band are they — rock, pop, jazz? Is their sound incredibly polished or annoyingly slick? The answer to all of these questions depends on […]
Steely Dan: Nostalgic But Still Potent
By Casey Moffitt Chicagoist.com CHICAGO — It would be easy to brush off Steely Dan as just another nostalgia act cashing in while taking audiences on a trip in the wayback machine, but the set performed at Ravinia Festival last Thursday night as part of the act’s Mood Swings tour was far more than just […]
Steely Dan Delivers Hits at Sit-Down Affair
By Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — If it weren’t for Steely Dan, the term “jazz rock” would be as oxymoronic as “country funk” or “folk rap.” More than 45 years ago, Bard College classmates Donald Fagen and Walter Becker found the fabled key to connecting jazzy solos with rock rhythms. After a […]
Steely Dan @ The Riverside Theater
By Thomas Michalski Express Milwaukee MILWAUKEE — Recently there’s been a resurgence of appreciation for a variety of the soft-rock super sounds of the ’70s. In addition to Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan has probably benefitted the most from the trend, perhaps because they’ve always been rather hard to pin down, more complex than most of their […]
Steely Dan Digs Deep at Fox Theatre Show
By Gary Graff The Oakland Press DETROIT — In Steely Dan’s world, one guy makes a big difference. In fact, it’s what allows the group to BE Steely Dan. Last year the entire group that was on stage Saturday night, July 27, at the Fox Theatre performed at the DTE Energy Music Theatre as the […]
Steely Dan Delivers Sparkling Show at Louisville Palace
By Jeffrey Lee Puckett The Courier-Journal LOUISVILLE — Steely Dan is a band famed for its painstaking attention to detail when making records. Every note is in place, sometimes to a fault, although no one can question the dedication to craft of songwriters Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. That same attention to detail was in […]
Steely Dan Delivers Epic Concert at Jacobs
By Joe Kleon Cleveland Scene CLEVELAND — At this point in their 30-plus year career, Steely Dan’s Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have taken on the role of bandleaders. They conduct as much as they play. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. During an epic two-plus hour concert last night at a sold-out Jacobs […]
Steely Dan was ‘Reelin’ in the Years’ — and the Fans
By Chuck Yarborough The Cleveland Plain Dealer CLEVELAND — For much of the band’s initial incarnation in the 1970s, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Steely Dan primarily were a studio band. College buddies and founding members Donald Fagen and Walter Becker preferred recording over the road. It worked, too, as they produced albums like […]
