By Gary Graff The Oakland Press Mood Swings 2013: 8 Miles To Pancake Day is not a conventional name for a tour. So, as you might imagine, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan don’t have a conventional answer for how it came to be. “Mood Swings, that was the easy part,” says Fagen, […]
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Steely Dan Goes Its Own Way, As Usual
By Steve Knopper Special to the Tribune CHICAGO — Steely Dan once spewed out impeccably crafted albums at an absurdly consistent rate — once a year, from “Can’t Buy a Thrill” in 1972 through “Aja” in 1977 — but it was the road that killed the band. “We were in our 20s. We weren’t going […]
Steely Dan: These Guys Aren’t Shy
Jazzy classic rockers sound off ahead of concert Tuesday night at Embassy Theatre By James Grant Fort Wayne News-Sentinel FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, better known as the creative team behind rock group Steely Dan, who’ll be performing at the Embassy Theatre on Tuesday night, are never afraid to share their opinions. […]
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 […]
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 […]
