Steely Dan
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Devo, Steely Dan say LP concerts are in orderVeteran rockers delight fans with simulated turntable experience Nick Krewen Special to the Star This week's Devo and Steely Dan shows in Toronto pay tribute to albums a quarter-century old, but the idea of the one-album concert is even... In this article: Steely Dan, Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, Walter Becker, Aja, Freedom of Choice, The Royal Scam, Bob Casale, and Gaucho |
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thestar.com | 4 days ago
Concert sampler by Raju Mudhar
Steely Dan perform two of their classic albums live on separate nights. Broken Social Scene member Andrew Whiteman gears up his folky trio for a short Canadian tour in support of their Eats Darkness album. Like the above track, expect...
In this article: Get Physical, Criminal Records, Andrew Whiteman, Laurie Anderson, Aja, Broken Social Scene, and The Royal Scam
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 5 days ago
It's 'Tuesday Night' again for Sheryl Crow
In this article: Sheryl Crow, Tuesday Night Music Club, Leaving Las Vegas, Post-Dispatch, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Can't Cry Anymore, All I Wanna Do, and Strong Enough
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all about jazz | 7 days ago
Claire Martin: A Modern Art
...she goes to bed with a copy of a celebrity gossip magazine, rather than the more dubious literature favored by the protagonist in the Steely Dan version. The album highlight is undoubtedly "Love is Real." This is a gorgeous ballad, co-written...
In this article: Esbjorn Svensson, Laurence Cottle, Nigel Hitchcock, Charlie Haden, Donald Fagen, and Walter Becker
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 7 days ago
Q&A: Bruce Hornsby brings new pop music to Pageant show
...who came to this bar, they wanted us to play [Lynyrd] Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker Band. So we were playing Steely Dan and Miles Davis tunes, Joni Mitchell from her jazz period. That sort of stuff. This one guy, some country...
In this article: Bruce Hornsby, Tony La Russa, Jack DeJohnette, Cardinals, St. Louis, Ricky Skaggs, Ideology, RCA, and Mark McGwire
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The Australian | November 14, 2009
Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald to tour NZ
...perform Mick Fleetwood Blues Band original material along with Fleetwood Mac songs. As a member of The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, Michael McDonald recorded some of his most well-known songs, such as Takin' It to the Streets, Little...
In this article: Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac, Speak Low, Grammy Award, Motown, Christchurch, Napier, and Auckland
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washingtonpost.com | November 14, 2009
Full album concerts do little for us
By the end of November, Bruce Springsteen, the Pixies, Steely Dan and Devo will all have played full-album concerts in D.C. (Illustration by Serge Bloch) In Sunday's Arts & Style section Chris Richards wrote a piece titled "Frozen in...
In this article: Pixies, Frank Black, Tortoise, Trouble Funk, The Beatles, Complete Discography, Minor Threat, Talking Heads, and Minnie Riperton
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | November 13, 2009
Firstwatch: Politics, football and music for boomers
...Natatorium in Madison. Most of those young athletes would likely roll their eyes at this weekend musical line up in Milwaukee. Steely Dan plays the Riverside Theater on Friday and Saturday nights, covering their albums "Aja," then "Royal...
In this article: Tom Barrett, James Sensenbrenner, Russ Feingold, Wisconsin, Marquette University Law School, Journal Sentinel, E-Street Band, and Bruce Springsteen
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thestar.com | November 12, 2009
What's On: Coming Soon
...performs at the Guvernment, 416-870-8000 November 23 & 24 Devo whip it up at the Phoenix, 416-870-8000 November 25 & 26 Steely Dan performs at Massey Hall, 416-872-4255 November 26 November 28 November 29 Corinne Bailey Rae...
In this article: Massey Hall, Air Canada Centre, Phoenix, Roy Thomson Hall, New Year's Eve, Hamlet, Tarragon Theatre, and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | November 12, 2009
Those '70s shows
Although they dissolved the partnership in 1981, Becker and Fagen returned to touring as Steely Dan in 1993, and to recording as Steely Dan in 2000. It's only lately that they've decided to play full albums as part of their concerts.
In this article: Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Astral Weeks, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, Lou Reed, Doolittle, and Berlin
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Denver Post Entertainment | October 23, 2009
Steely Dan playing entire albums on a rare tour
Walter Becker, left, and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. (Danny Clinch ) For longtime Steely Dan fans, it is still a treat to see the band live. In the 1970s, the band, fronted by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, chose the perfection and...
In this article: Aja, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, The Royal Scam, Gaucho, Denver, and New York
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Steely Dan is an American jazz-rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone magazine has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies."
The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral," "wry" and "eccentric" lyrics are filled with sharp sarcasm which often touches upon such "dark" themes as drugs, crime, and their true-to-life "contempt of west coast hippies." The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho — an album that contains only seven songs.
Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of extremely successful singles and albums. They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade, Fagen and Becker remained largely inactive in the music world. During this time, the group steadily built and maintained "a cult following." In 1993, the group resumed playing live concerts; the early 21st century saw Steely Dan release two albums of new material, the first of which earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and in March 2001, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Name:
- Steely Dan
- Origin:
- Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States
- Years Active:
- 1972–1981
- 1993–present
- Current members:
- Former Members:
- Associated With:
- New York Rock and Soul Revue, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Jay and the Americans
- Genre:
- Rock, jazz fusion, rhythm and blues
- Record Label:
- ABC, MCA, Reprise
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