The Setlist For The Boston Show - Citi Wang Theater

Here is the setlist for the 9/25/13 show last week, from my notes.

You can also see it on SetlistFM.

I heard that Walter Becker left the concert early Tuesday night, due to a fever. I am so glad he was in good form, for my concert.

My apologies for being so late with this post. I hope to have the concert review, by the weekend.

Blueport
(Gerry Mulligan cover) (Bipolar All-Stars only)

Your Gold Teeth
Aja
Hey Nineteen
Show Biz Kids
Black Cow
Black Friday
Time Out of Mind
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
Deacon Blues
Bodhisattva
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Do It Again
I Want to (Do Everything for You)
(Joe Tex cover) (Band Intros by Walter Becker)

Josie
Peg
My Old School
Reelin' in the Years

Encore:
Kid Charlemagne

Untouchables Theme
(Nelson Riddle cover) (Bipolar All-Stars only)

Trusty "Angel" Girl

I am sure this has crossed your mind, if you post anywhere on the internet where I do. So what's with the trusty angel girl line you use? As I have mentioned in conversation before, I love the music of Steely Dan. When I first began reading a place called Under the Banyan Trees (also known as The Yellow), I noticed that posters mostly had "handles" that referred back to lyrics in Steely Dan song. One of my best friends is Luckless Pedestrian, from a line in "Don't Take Me Alive". Well, I began looking at lyrics for something that somehow spoke for "Me". Debated Katy at one time, because one of my favorite songs is on the Katy Lied album, but there was a Me Katy who posted at that time. So I looked further. I then noticed a trend...angels seem to be prominently featured in Steely Dan songs. I have no understanding as to why this occurs but there were at least (at the time) 6 references that I found to an angel. Well, I make my home in Los Angeles and I happen to be Catholic, so I have a connection to angels. I signed onto the yellow with this line from Steely Dan's first album song, "Brooklyn". February of 2001 a new entity appeared saying...

A race of angels...
bound with one another...

There she was, a bit more friendly then she is now. Lots of flaming does tend to bring down ones enthusiasm a bit but she has persevered and grown in this internet world. She signed onto the Max Martini world (a new venture for her) back in November of 2006 and now she switches between worlds but the same persona exists. These past years make me feel that she has grown up to have a personality of her own. It's funny sometimes to see. She has walked and fund raised for Cure Autism Now as Angelle Lemarche, she has "starred" as a movie extra as Angelle Lemarche, and The Navy Seals send her invites to their museum events, since she donated to them, too. lol
Anyway, I felt like paying tribute to some of those lyrics that helped make her personality. What follows are angel references in Steely Dan songs. I like to think that "angel" references are on the rise in Steely Dan recordings of the 21st century, because of me. I take pride in that...if only in my own mind.

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Can't Buy a Thrill 1971

Brooklyn

A race of angels
Bound with one another
A dish of dollars
Laid out for all to see
A tower room at Eden Rock
His golf at noon for free
Brooklyn owes the charmer
Under me

_____________

The Royal Scam 1976

Green Earrings

Cold, daring
No flies on me
Sorry, angel
I must take what I see

Green earrings
I remember
The rings of rare design
I remember
The look in your eyes
I don't mind

Greek medallion
Sparkles when you smile
Sorry, angel
I get hungry like a child

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Kamakiriad 1993 (Donald Fagen)

Tomorrow's Girls

Our home is just like any other
We're grillin' burgers on the back lawn
Some time goes by
We fall asleep with the TV on
I dream about a laughing angel
Then the laugh becomes a furious whine
Look out fellas
It's shredding time

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11 Tracks of Whack 1994 (Walter Becker)

Girlfriend

So come on angel
Tune in on me
You 'll see your faithful servant
Lost in misery
And all of your hard work
Coming down to no good
Better see about me babe
If you only could now

Down at the Bottom

like the feathers and I love the hat
I like that little gypsy tune you're humming
I guess I'm happy now we've had this chat
Oh yeah I'm really glad I saw you coming
There in the corner of the eastern sky
The tortured angel of your rising sign
Darkens the evening with his one good eye
An evil omen of the dopest kind

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Medical Science (Bonus track on Japanese version of 11TOW)

And all the jiveasses and the true believers
The bullshit givers and receivers
Here today tomorrow gone
To the triage tent in the great beyond
Wherein the angel tangoes with the infidel

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Everything Must Go 2003

Godwacker

We track your almighty ass
Thru seven heaven-worlds
Me, Slinky Redfoot
And our trusty angel-girls
And when the stars bleed out
That be the fever of the chase
You better get gone poppie
GodWhacker's on the case

Blues Beach

Grab Big Dog a blanket
Angel of my heart
Things may get a whole lot worse
Before suddenly falling apart
Give your roommate Yvonne a ring
Cause if she still wants in I gotta pull some strings

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Morph the Cat (Donald Fagen) 2006

Security Joan

Well I guess I needed a miracle
If I was gonna make my flight
I had to get to Gate C13
And it was still way out of sight
But something in my carry-on bag
Ticked off the x-ray machine
Cause then an angel straight from heaven
Asked me to step behind the screen
When I felt her wand sweep over me
You know I never felt so clean

Yes, it's a pretty diverse bunch of lyrics and I truly appreciate Donald and Walter for giving me so much to work with over the years.
Thanks guys.

"The Steely Dan Show" Is A Real Song

If you would like to hear the song and follow along with the lyrics, click the title of the song and it will bring you to a You Tube video from 2003.

"The Steely Dan Show"

Boys and Girls
They come from all around
From dear old Stockholm
To Copenhagen town
Forget their troubles
In tasty riddum n' rime
So here you are
And now it's party time
Wrap your mind
Around this sound
And let the goodness ripple down
Goodbye to Lonely Street
You're in the Catbird Seat
At THE STEELY DAN SHOW

If you got backpacks
And pointy little shoes
Late-model roadsters
Or just those walkin' blues
A case of heartache
That you're too numb to fight
A secret sorrow
That keeps you up all night
Well don't you fret
It's not your fault
Just lay it all on Don and Walt
Just trip out on these hits
The groove that never quits
At THE STEELY DAN SHOW

So buy a program
And/or a hat
You don't pass up a deal like that
It's only promo stuff
But hey it's good enough
For THE STEELY DAN SHOW

Set Lists of Steely Dan Concerts

It amazes me what comes along on the Internet. Back in the day, we would post our Steely Dan set lists over on something called The Blue Book. Then along came Twitter and the first night someone would Tweet the set list and it would post over on the Blue, too.

Now days, there is such a thing as Set List FM and look how cool it is!

Set List FM.

What I have learned from checking this out once in a while, is that the really cool songs I would have died to see, are gone. Darn!

Check out your favorite bands set lists, if you are so inclined. Lots of stats, too.

I love evolving technology.