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 […]
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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 […]
Setlist Coverage of 2013 Mood Swings Tour
By Ryan Reed Glide Magazine It’s probably a lingering side-effect from the 1970s — when the band permanently retreated from the stage — but it’s hard not to get butterflies every time Steely Dan announce a new tour. It’s been a whole decade since their last album, Everything Must Go, and maybe not having to promote new […]
Top 10 Questions (and Answers) from our Steely Dan Interview
By Jeff Niesel Cleveland Scene CLEVELAND — We recently participated in a teleconference call with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, who took the opportunity to have a bit of fun with the questions that a group of journalists asked about their upcoming tour, which they’ve called Mood Swings: 8 Miles to Pancake Day […]
Steely Dan Leaves Some Hits at Home
By SCOTT CRONICK Atlantic City Press ATLANTIC CITY — Steely Dan — the rock ’n’ roll duo comprising musical geniuses Walter Becker and Donald Fagen — never really seemed to care about what others thought about them or their music. They play what they want to play, exactly how they want to play it. […]
Steely Dan on Making New Music: ‘We’ve Been Talking’
Band kick off 53-date Mood Swings tour this weekend By Andy Greene Rolling Stone Interviewing Steely Dan is no easy task. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen turned messing with journalists into an art form back in the Seventies. Rolling Stone checked in with Becker and Fagen during the final days of rehearsal for their upcoming 53-date Mood Swings American tour. […]
As the ‘Mood Swings’ Tour Opens, a Conversation With Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen
By Joan K. Smith For Huffington Post Steely Dan’s 2013 tour, fabulously titled “Mood Swings: 8 Miles to Pancake Day” (really!), opens this weekend. Coming on the heels of Donald Fagen’s latest solo album, Sunken Condos, and only two years after their last tour, Steely Dan is proving itself one of the 21st century’s most consistent, and unfailingly […]
Steely Dan: ‘8 Miles to Pancake Day’ Tour Stops at CMAC
Originally published on July 18, 2013 By Alan Sculley Finger Lakes Times GENEVA, NY — In the 1970s, Steely Dan became that decade’s ultimate studio band, having decided in 1975 to quit touring to concentrate on turning out studio albums like Pretzel Logic (1974), The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977). Donald Fagen and […]
Steely Dan’s Fagen and Becker Say New Music ‘In the Air’
Originally published on July 17, 2013 By Chuck Yarborough The Cleveland Plain Dealer CLEVELAND — Remember elementary-school science class, when Mr. Wizard talked about polarity of magnets, how the south end of one magnet repelled the south end of another, while the opposite ends were instantly attached? Well, on a whole BUNCH of levels, Steely […]
New Steely Dan Album? ‘It’s In the Air’
By Gary Graff Billboard Walter Becker says he and Donald Fagen can “smell” a new Steely Dan album coming, the first since the 2003 Top 10 entry “Everything Must Go.” “It’s in the air, it really is,” Becker told Billboard during a good-naturedly sarcastic conference call with reporters to advance the group’s Mood Swings 2013: […]
