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. […]
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 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: […]
Jon Herington – Steely Dan’s Lead Guitarist
By Leslie Michele Derrough Glide Magazine If Jon Herington is anything, idle is not it. It may have taken him a little while to get to where he is today, playing guitar in Steely Dan since 2000 and fronting his own band, but he has never really stopped and piddled his time away. In fact, the […]
