By Rosa Shiels The Press CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The line from Boston is crackly and the voice indistinct. If there were ever a time for good reception it is now; the New York aristocrats of jazz-rock, Steely Dan, have finally decided to come down our way, and Donald Fagen is on the line, ready […]
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Steely Dan Concert Won’t Be a Nostalgia Trip
Gannett News Service This summer, Steely Dan will tour on the heels, not of a group album, but the release last year of the Donald Fagen solo CD, Morph The Cat. But Fagen’s musical partner in Steely Dan, Walter Becker, says fans can rest assured that even without new Steely Dan music to play, he […]
Steely Dan Slamming Through Their Hits
By Alan Sculley Last Word Features NEW YORK — Steely Dan won’t be touring behind a new group CD this spring, or for that matter be featuring material from Donald Fagen’s recent solo CD, Morph The Cat. But Fagen’s musical partner in Steely Dan, Walter Becker, says fans can rest assured that even without new […]
Nostalgic Time Not in Steely Dan’s Nature
Expect a high-impact show that will banish any talk of traipsing down the garden path By Alan Sculley Special to The Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS — Steely Dan begins its summer tour Saturday at Memphis in May’s Beale Street Music Festival. The duo are touring on the heels of the release of the Donald Fagen solo […]
The Steely Dan Interview: Donald Fagen
By Paul Cashmere Undercover.com.au 1n 1972, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a couple of college friends who had been playing around in various bands, decided to form their own group. The name they chose was Steely Dan. It was a joke name. It came from the term for a dildo in the William Burroughs book […]
Different Strokes
By Nui Te Koha Sunday Times of Perth (Australia) Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen hints that these days he is no longer the prickly character the band’s perfectionist demands once made him. “I think Walter (Becker) and I were challenged when we were younger as far as relationships with other people,” he says. “I think […]
’70s Powers Have Become a Smooth Combination
By Michael Senft The Arizona Republic Whether you’re a fan of classic rock or smooth jazz, Tuesday’s concert featuring Michael McDonald and Steely Dan is a perfect match. Both dominated the charts in the ’70s — Dan with such exquisite studio creations as Josie and FM, McDonald with the breezy California anthems of the Doobie […]
McDonald to Perform with his Old Band Steely Dan
By Hector Saldana San Antonio Express-News Steely Dan and Michael McDonald have a history. It began long before pairing up for their “Steelyard ‘Sugartooth’ McDan” tour. The Doobie Brothers star played in one of the earliest touring incarnations of the revered and reclusive band. Steely Dan and McDonald play Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Saturday. McDonald […]
Influences: Donald Fagen
Steely Dan was the quintessential L.A. band, but Fagen himself has always been a New Yorker at heart. By Ben Williams New York Magazine Were you inspired by anything new when you recorded your new album, Morph the Cat? I basically listen to the same 40 albums that I listened to in high school, near […]
Fagen Keeps His Cool
By Tom Lanham San Francisco Chronicle NEW YORK — For the past 35 years, with his smooth-jazz outfit Steely Dan, Donald Fagen has cultivated an ice-blue, cocktail-hour profile that’s always been several notches classier than whatever rock was happening at the time. Ditto for his three solo albums — 1982’s The Nightfly, 1983’s Kamakiriad and […]
