Steely Dan With Donald Fagen Will Be Touring In 2018

It is sad to see what has gone on since the death of Walter Becker.

The Steely Dan website, that fans have loved so much since the mid 90's has been archived and is no longer active.

So HERE is the new website, where you can purchase tickets to Steely Dan's upcoming tour.

You can check them out, down below.

MAY10 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at PNC Music Pavilion Thu 7:30 PM EDT · 8,803 guests PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte, NC

MAY11 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Coastal Credit Union Fri 7:30 PM EDT · 6,009 guests Coastal Credit Union Music Park Raleigh, NC

MAY13 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Daily's Place Sun 7:30 PM EDT · 2,449 guests Daily's Place Jacksonville, FL

MAY14 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at MIDFLORIDA CU Amphitheatre Mon 7:30 PM EDT · 2,478 guests MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre Tampa, FL

MAY17 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Coral Sky Amphitheatre Thu 7:30 PM EDT · 2,786 guests Coral Sky Amphitheatre West Palm Beach

MAY19 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Verizon Amphitheatre Sat 7:30 PM EDT · 7,035 guests Verizon Amphitheatre Alpharetta, GA

MAY20 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Ascend Amphitheater Sun 7:30 PM CDT · 6,608 guests Ascend Amphitheater Nashville, TN

MAY22 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Smoothie King Center Tue 7:30 PM CDT · 2,585 guests Smoothie King Center New Orleans, LA

MAY24 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Smart Financial Centre Thu 8 PM CDT · 2,225 guests Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land Sugar Land, TX

MAY25 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Fri 7:30 PM CDT · 5,127 guests The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Irving, TX

MAY27 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Austin360 Amphitheater Sun 7:30 PM CDT · 3,919 guests Austin360 Amphitheater Austin, TX

MAY30 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at The Forum Wed 7:30 PM · 5,721 guests The Forum Inglewood

JUN1 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Shoreline Amphitheatre Fri 7:30 PM · 6,340 guests Shoreline Amphitheatre At Mountain View Mountain View

JUN4 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Moda Center at the Rose Quar Mon 7:30 PM · 2,746 guests Moda Center at the Rose Quarter Portland, OR

JUN5 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at KeyArena at Seattle Center Tue 7:30 PM · 3,879 guests KeyArena at Seattle Center Seattle, WA

JUN7 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Spokane Arena Thu 7 PM · by Steely Dan Spokane Arena Spokane, WA

JUN9 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Taco Bell Arena Sat 7:30 PM MDT · 2,513 guests Taco Bell Arena Boise, ID

JUN10 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at USANA Amphitheater Sun 7:30 PM MDT · by Steely Dan USANA Amphitheatre Salt Lake City, UT

JUN12 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Pepsi Center Tue 7:30 PM MDT · 1,731 guests Pepsi Center Denver, CO

JUN15 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Xcel Energy Center Fri 7:30 PM CDT · 4,114 guests Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, MN

JUN16 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Breese Stevens Field Sat 6:30 PM CDT · 6,477 guests Breese Stevens Field Madison, WI

JUN18 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Starlight Theatre Mon 7:30 PM CDT · 6,160 guests Starlight Theatre Kansas City, MO

JUN19 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Hollywood Casino Amp. Tue 7:30 PM CDT · 7,907 guests Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre St. Louis Maryland Heights, MO

JUN21 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatr Thu 7:30 PM CDT · 3,273 guests Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Chicago Tinley Park, IL

JUN23 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Blossom Music Center Sat 7:30 PM EDT · 5,682 guests Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, OH

JUN24 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Sun 7:30 PM EDT · 3,380 guests Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center Noblesville, IN

JUN26 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at DTE Energy Music Theatre Tue 7:30 PM EDT · 4,341 guests DTE Energy Music Theatre Clarkston, MI

JUN27 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Riverbend Music Center Wed 7:30 PM EDT · 7,068 guests Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH

JUN30 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Saratoga Performing Arts Cen Sat 7:30 PM EDT · 3,330 guests Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY

JUL2 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Budweiser Stage Mon 7:30 PM EDT · 3,720 guests Budweiser Stage Toronto, ON, Canada

JUL3 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Lakeview Amphitheater Tue 7:30 PM EDT Lakeview Amphitheater Syracuse, NY

JUL6 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at PNC Bank Arts Center Fri 7:30 PM EDT · 2,546 guests PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ

JUL7 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Xfinity Center Sat 7:30 PM EDT · 3,315 guests Xfinity Center Mansfield, MA

JUL10 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Jiffy Lube Live Tue 7:30 PM EDT · 2,610 guests Jiffy Lube Live Bristow, VA

JUL11 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at BB&T Pavilion Wed 7:30 PM EDT · 4,718 guests BB&T Pavilion Camden, NJ

JUL13 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers Bank of NH Pavilion Fri 7:30 PM EDT · 2,356 guests Bank of NH Pavilion Gilford, NH

JUL14 Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers at Bethel Woods Center for the Sat 7:30 PM EDT · 4,935 guests Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY

A Second Chance At The 2nd Arrangement

When Walter Becker died, Steely Dan made Youtube take down all the fan shot concert footage. I am not sure if mine is still there, I should probably check it out. :-)

One of the many videos that we lost, was The 2nd Arrangement, which I saw performed at the Beacon Theater, back in 2011. It is not a great video, but it does show off a song that we never heard Donald and Walter actually perform, until that night. Before that, it sat in Steely Dan lore...the one that got away, via erasure by a studio tech.

It is up again, but I don't know for how long and so I did 5 screen grabs from the video and I decided to post them here.

Here is the link, if it makes it past today. 2nd Arrangement

So...How Many Steely Dan Concerts Have You Seen?

I guess they ask this question, because of the death of Walter Becker.

How many Steely Dan Concerts have you seen, over the years?

My answer is: 20 going on 21.

I managed to miss both the East Coast and West Coast concerts for the Two Against Nature tour.

I was on vacation in NYC, when the Jones Beach Concert was going on. I thought about it, but it was way too late, by then.

In Los Angeles, I thought about trying to get to Irvine Meadows, but decided not to, since I could not get in touch with the person I would have gone with. I found out later that my Steely Dan work friend would have come with me, had I bought the tickets that I saw at the last minute. Oh well, live and learn.

2003 -3 Concerts
My first year, I managed to get to the Fairgrounds at Paso Robles, The Roseland Ballroom (Friday Show only), and Universal Amphitheatre

2006 -3 Concerts
In 2006 we were treated to Donald Fagen going on a solo tour, at the Wiltern Theater, L.A. Then we saw Steely Dan at The Embarcadero Marina Park, in San Diego, for the final concert that they played 2 sets with an intermission in the middle. Then I flew to Michigan, for the SD/Michael McDonald show at DTE Energy Music Theatre.

2007 -1 Concert
Chumash! Santa Ynez

2008 -2 Concerts
We saw them at the Nokia L.A. (ask about the champagne and truffles sometime), then at the Pond in Anaheim

2009 -4 Concerts
Royal Scam, Aja, Gaucho, and Internet Request Night, at the Gibson Amphitheater

2011 -2 Concerts
Santa Barbara Bowl and The Beacon NYC (Rarities and Unreleased)

2013 -1 Concert
Boston, The Wang Theatre

2014 -1 Concert
The Forum, Los Angeles

2015 -1 Concert
Santa Barbara Bowl

2016 -1 Concert
Hollywood Bowl Opening Night

2017 -1 Concert(going on 2)
Santa Barbara Bowl (Hopefully Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers this month at the Masonic in San Francisco)

Which concert, out of all of them, was my favorite?

It is a tie between The Roseland Ballroom "Everything Must Go" Tour and the infamous Rarities and Unreleased at the Beacon.

May Donald continue in Steely Dan's name, for years to come.

No Pretzels Today

It has been a very hard 2 days.

The death of Walter Becker has brought out so many posts and so many memories.

Up onto my Facebook feed, Twitter feed and Blog feed, among other places.

I am overwhelmed by it all.

This photo I found, right at the end of day 2, and it said it all for me.

The Pretzel Logic cover, that I have mentioned before.

Godspeed to you, Walter. You will absolutely be missed.

A tribute by his daughter, Sayan Becker (the one mentioned in Book of Liars, with the line "And there's a Hello Kitty for his pride and joy"), can be found HERE.

Walter Becker Has Died

Walter Becker has died.

To say the least, I am heartbroken.

Godspeed to you Walter.

You can read more, HERE.

Updated to add a statement from Donald Fagen.

Donald Fagen statement September 3, 2017:

Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.

We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.

Walter had a very rough childhood - I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.

His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.

I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.

Donald Fagen & The Nightflyers - Green Earrings

Truly, I am such a sucker for the song, Green Earrings. :-)

Donald Fagen and the Nightflyers are out and playing the songs of the tour.

This one turned up on YouTube the other day and I decided to give you a hint as to what an old man and a bunch of just barely above drinking age band members sound like.

They sound pretty good.

Steely Dan Band 1993 (Shoreline Amphitheater)

Nice things keep turning up on Youtube.

The other day a fan pointed out a beautiful video from a Steely Dan concert. It was at the Shoreline Amphitheater back in 1993.

I have seen songs, but never the full concert. You can check it out HERE.

Pretty good quality, especially when what I have seen is usually on VHS tape and in no condition to be watched.

This was a treat for me and might be for you, too.

Enjoy.

Band Members:

Bill Ware III: Vibraphone
Bob Sheppard: Saxophone
Brenda White-King: Vocals
Catherine Russell: Vocals
Chris Potter: Saxophone
Cornelius Bumpus: Saxophone
Diane Garisto: Vocals
Donald Fagen: Keyboards
Donald Fagen: Vocals
Drew Zingg: Electric guitar
Peter Erskine: Drums
Tom Barney: Electric bass (finger)
Walter Becker: Vocals
Walter Becker: Electric guitar
Warren Bernhardt: Keyboards

Full Greenwich, CT Concert on 5/27/17

Steely Dan Fans received a very nice present on Sunday. A link to see the entire Greenwich, CT concert with decent video and audio. Check it out HERE.

It is not the most extensive set list, but it was a private "light user" gig, so they went with the hits.

Here is the Setlist with the "In times" for each of the songs.

Setlist:

0:00 Bodhisattva - video starts at 1:17
5:10 Black Friday
9:56Hey Nineteen
19:28 Aja
28:06 Show Biz Kids
34:57 Black Cow
40:33 Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
44:12 Time Out of Mind
50:37 Dirty Work
55:50 I Want To (Do Everything for You) - with band intros at 58:19
1:10:00 Josie
1:15:48 Peg
1:20:07 My Old School
1:26:34 Reelin' in the Years
1:32:38 Kid Charlemagne

Encore: 1:39:45 Pretzel Logic - dedicated to Gregg Allman
1:45:25 The Untouchables

Larry Carlton In The House!

A small "one of" concert took place this Memorial Day Weekend.

Who showed up, because Jon Herington is busy touring?

Larry Carlton!

I have seen Larry play before, but this time he is lead guitar for the entire concert.

Quite a promotion for him.

Check out the video of Kid Charlemagne.

Sorry so shaky.

Tin Foil Hat

Donald Fagen has worked with Todd Rundgren before, specifically a tune called Rhymes.

Well, along comes a new Todd album and who shows up? The Donald himself.

Tin Foil Hat is obviously about our current chief executive and you can definitely hear the distinctive groove and vocals of Donald Fagen.

The best that us fans can come up with, is that Todd definitely helped with the lyrics (never Donald's strong point) and Todd probably also played and produced the tune. He also did the vocal overdubs and the line about tiny little hands, too.

It is interesting and worth a listen.