Originally published on Sept. 4, 2013 By Timothy Finn The Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY — The best live shows are emotional journeys, escapes from reality into realms transcendent and nostalgic. Tuesday night, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen took a full house at the Midland theater on a two-hour excursion into various environments, some obscure, […]
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Steely Dan at Bass Concert Hall
Originally published on Aug. 29, 2013 By Ramon Ramirez Austin360.com AUSTIN — Steely Dan is not here to make friends. The ‘70s era soft rock studio wizards infused Bass Concert Hall on Wednesday with a 20-song, two-hour set book-ended by Gerry Mulligan and Nelson Riddle covers, ovation-jumpstarting solos every five minutes and band geek drum […]
Steely Dan Follows up the Armadillo with Bass
Originally published on Aug. 29, 2013 By Jim Caligiuri Austin Chronicle AUSTIN, Tx. — According to Walter Becker Wednesday at a sold-out Bass Concert Hall, the last time Steely Dan played in Austin was at the Armadillo World Headquarters (1970-1980). The group that performed last night had the same name and some of the same […]
Steely Dan at the Pearl
Originally published on Aug. 24, 2013 By Launce Rake Aging Hippie Editor Las Vegas CityLife Steely Dan isn’t a band. It’s an institution. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the perfectionist, song-writing core of Steely Dan, have been working together for more than 45 years, along the way twisting jazz-based compositions into some of the smoothest, […]
Steely Dan in Gaucho-Land
Acclaimed band plays songs from the 1970s and early ’80s at the Santa Barbara Bowl Originally published on Aug. 23, 2013 By Jeff Moehlis Noozhawk Contributing Writer Steely Dan occupies a special musical niche where rock, pop and jazz seamlessly converge, where flawless musicianship is not sterile, where lyrics can be cerebral and sardonic without being […]
Steely Dan Soars at Humphreys
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 […]
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 […]
