By Curtis Ross The Tampa Tribune CLEARWATER, Fla. – Steely Dan’s return to touring has been a mixed blessing, at least around here. The band’s meticulously constructed jazz-pop needs more intimacy and better acoustics than can be provided by an outdoor amphitheater or a hockey arena. Small wonder, then, that Steely Dan’s Monday night show […]
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More Pretzel Logic from Mercurial Duo
By Deborah Wilker Hollywood Reporter Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, Fla. Tuesday, May 8 With its sturdy classic-era catalog and hip pedigree, famed studio collective Steely Dan has emerged in recent years — somewhat surprisingly — as one of the concert industry’s go-to heritage acts. Although consistently dogged by the rap that they’ve never been particularly […]
Literate Groove But Not Enough of the Classic Tunes
By RAY BANZ as told to JEREMY COX Naples Daily News Editor’s note: The following review of Steely Dan’s performance Wednesday night at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall is written from the perspective of lead singer and band co-founder Donald Fagen’s sunglasses. As such, it may include some flashes of fiction, but none […]
Rain, Flame No Bane to Egypt Central, Lees
By Mark Jordan Special to The Commercial Appeal MEMPHIS — Memphis heavy rockers Egypt Central probably faced the greatest obstacles of any band performing at this year’s Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival. Playing Sunday afternoon in the second slot on the trouble-plagued AutoZone Stage at the north end of Tom Lee Park — […]
Jazz Fest ’07: Last Day
By Tommy Stevenson Tuscaloosa News NEW ORLEANS — Allen Toussaint didn’t write every New Orleans R&B hit from the ’50s and ’60s, it just seems that way. From “Mother-In-Law” for Ernie K Doe to “Ruler of My Heart” for Erma Thomas to “Fortune Teller” for Benny Spellman to such much-covered standards as “Steelyard Blues” and […]
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 […]
Steely Dan Brings Jazzy Funk-Rock to Atlantic City
Smooth jazz icons descend on Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal casino for an uneven performance By Kevin O’Donnell Rolling Stone If there is one locale that serves as a perfect backdrop to Steely Dan’s tunes about aged, down-and-out hipsters, morally bankrupt players and all-around seedy characers, it’s the casino resort town of Atlantic City, New […]
Donald Fagen: Morph the Cat
By Woodrow WilkinsAllAboutJazz.com There’s an engaging quality to Donald Fagen’s songwriting and perfectionism that makes Steely Dan fans flock to his solo albums. While The Nightfly (1982) and Kamakiriad (1993) were expressly Fagen, Morph the Cat closely resembles Steely Dan without Walter Becker. The lineup partially reflects the ensemble that recorded the Dan’s 2003 release, Everything Must Go, and toured with the […]
