Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

Crazy how Hall & Oates didn't play "I Can't Go For That" at Bonnaroo since most of the teens there know that song from "Say No Go".

(O and: I saw KC and the Sunshine Band at a private corporate event a few years ago and it was its own kind of magic - clearly I need to start moving in much better circles if I am to catch private parties featuring Elvis Costello or Steely Dan.)

they play peg at every show. the setlist for coachella still hasn't surfaced

oh wait nvm

Bodhisattva
Black Friday
Aja
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
Hey Nineteen
Show Biz Kids
Josie
My Old School
Reelin' in the Years
Kid Charlemagne

love that they did Show Biz Kids

that's a pretty ace setlist

haha yeah i saw show biz kids and lol'd

setlist is so good
what's the likelihood they'll play in the uk or even europe sometime?

I will walk out of their Wednesday show if they play Show Biz Kids

lol they play that at every show too!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/coachella-2015-best-things-we-saw-20150413/best-banter-steely-dan-20150413

"We came here tonight for — well, there were some financial considerations, I'm not going to deny it," Steely Dan guitarist Walter Becker told the crowd, many of whom were young enough to be his grandchildren. "We're still here, we still got it, if you want it, come and get it." Although he expressed some anxiety about playing to a younger audience, the band delivered a triumphant set, from "Bodhisattva" to "My Old School." Becker and his partner Donald Fagen (author of our Coachella diary), joined by a dozen other crack musicians, delivered an hour of acerbic Steely Dan classics like they were driving a luxury sports car from 1975, immaculately maintained and immensely powerful. The overall level of musicianship was crazy: When there was a trombone solo at the end of 1980's "Hey Nineteen," for example, it was sly and funky and just about perfect. And some younger concertgoers found a way to reach out to "Uncle Wally and Uncle Don" (as Fagen introduced Becker and himself): during "Show Biz Kids": They slam-danced, but slowly and gently.

dear god

They slam-danced, but slowly and gently.

did someone snap a photo of Uncles Wally and Don dancing?

also, in the Miami episode of Layover I watched last night, Anthony Bourdain says something about how Miami reminds him of steely dan. he then says something like "great lyrics. awful arrangements." fuckin guy.

Miami is a Flo rida song.

1 quality of Coachella diary drops off significantly after 1st installment, too bad

2 Anthony Bourdain, defining middlebrow in a postpunk world: "It's wrong that dark, literate lyrics like Steely Dan's were set to dentist office music."

RIP Anthony

I would listen to a Steely Dan song about Anthony Bourdain

is there gelee on the lamb/yes there's gelee lamb

*sigh* fucked up my own joke :(

no worries, I'll distract them with idiocy:

that Bourdain song should be called:

Kid Char-la-lame

(duh huh, duh huh)

ouch, guys (no, I love it actually)

they really do play Show Biz Kids every show, huh?

played Dirty Work in Vegas on Saturday

I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of "Daddy Don't Live in that..." - every other song is pretty high profile.

played Dirty Work in Vegas on Saturday

surely Do It Again would be more appropriate

The set seems to be

Cubano Chant (Ray Bryant cover)
Black Cow
Aja
Hey Nineteen
Black Friday
(Rikki or Deacon Blues)
Show Biz Kids
Time Out of Mind
(typically something from the last two albums)
(Dirty Work or Razor Boy)
Bodhisattva
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
(Babylon Sisters or FM or Home at Last)
I Want To (Do Everything for You) (Joe Tex cover)
Josie
Peg
My Old School
Reelin' in the Years

Encore:
Kid Charlemagne
Sound Track song (Last Tango in Paris or The Untouchables)

I'd take the Deacon Blues and Razor Boy options for sure. Can't really choose between Babylon Sisters, FM, and Home at Last.

just discovered that you can take google maps the whole way up to center stage of the santa barbara bowl. just in case anyone wants to pretend to be Donald walking out this Wednesday:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.433541,-119.693609,3a,75y,338.29h,81.24t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sYegFfjmLo93jJSx7HCEjjQ!2e0

https://soundcloud.com/austinboogiecrew/brian-ellis-peg-abc-002

http://i.imgur.com/mTmZJmr.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/mTmZJmr.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/mTmZJmr.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/mTmZJmr.gif

http://sfist.com/2015/07/20/san_francisco_show_and_tell_steely.php

very enjoyable read, ty

i'm missing the 'dan tonight (same venue i saw them at in 2013)

missed the dan and elvis costello at the bowl couple weeks back.

going to their South Florida show in August

am not excited to see EC tbh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELNgQFPdgrA

is there ash in the jar?
is there ash in the jaaaaaarr?

oops that was supposed to be http://i.imgur.com/q3bKJdL.png

i think im done seeing the dan live unless its in a robert downey jr bday party situation. they've been on autopilot the last couple times i seen em.

EC can kinda bring the goods live Alfred

seen him twice, liked him both times, not interested

The best thing about seeing The Dan last night was seeing Freddie Washington up close tho which was amazing.

for ref:

https://youtu.be/UsnPYsHhzc4?t=32

Becker: The protagonist in “Deacon Blues” is a triple-L loser—an L-L-L Loser.

Can anyone name all the tracks Victor Feldman played on?

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/12/21/best-steely-dan-keyboard-performances/

How they got Wayne Shorter to play on Aja

Great story, thanks for sharing. This bit was pretty touching:

"That Friday, I walked down to Studio A. Donald was dressed in a starched striped shirt—white with blue stripes—pretty spiffy compared to the T-shirts he customarily wore in the studio.

Listened to this track a couple days ago. That Shorter solo us one of my all-time favorite SD moments, it really feels like he's reaching for the cosmos.

Yes and the time signature keeps propelling things forward.

One of the first things that brought me around on Steely Dan was happening onto that track on the radio right before the Shorter solo. I remember it really clearly in fact, I was driving in down Broad St in Newark NJ and that solo plus the Gadd fills, it was like discovering that there was an entire genre of music I had never heard before that was aesthetically outside my range yet pushed all my buttons. I had no idea what it was in the moment and suspected it might be him soloing but wasn't sure.

Very much into the Gaucho outtakes these days...is there a 33 1/3 book on this record? There should be. Since there's an Aja one (which I found dull), I doubt it