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Steely Dan Confirms First Tour In Three Years (With a new album due summer 2003)
billboard ^ | 4/8/2003 | Jonathan Cohen

Posted on 04/08/2003 3:50:50 PM PDT by TLBSHOW

Steely Dan Confirms First Tour In Three Years

Steely Dan has unveiled details for its first tour since the summer of 2000, kicking off July 23 in Costa Mesa, Calif., and wrapping Aug. 31 in Syracuse, N.Y. The veteran jazz/rock outfit will be touring in support of its upcoming Reprise album, "Everything Must Go," which has been bumped to June 10 from its original May 6 release date. As the band explained in its online newsletter, "the reason, we understand, has to do with something called 'a schedule' for some entity called 'the record company.'"

"Everything Must Go" finds group leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker backed by drummer Keith Carlock, keyboardists Ted Baker and Bill Charlap, and guitarists Jon Herrington and Hugh McCracken. Beyond his usual bass and guitar duties, Becker takes the mic on one as-yet-unnamed tune, marking his first lead vocal in Steely Dan's history.

The album is the follow-up to 2000's "Two Against Nature," which was the group's first album since 1980's "Gaucho" and went on to win the Grammy for album of the year.

Here are Steely Dan's tour dates:

July 23: Costa Mesa, Calif. (Orange County Fair) July 24: Paso Robles, Calif. (Mid-State Fair) July 26: Kelseyville, Calif. (Konocti Harbor) July 27: Tahoe, Nev. (Harvey's Outdoors) Aug. 1: Portland, Ore. (Coliseum) Aug. 2: George, Wash. (Gorge Amphitheatre) Aug. 4: Denver (Fiddler's Green) Aug. 7: St. Paul, Minn. (X-Cel Energy Center) Aug. 8: Chicago (United Center) Aug. 9: Columbus, Ohio (Schottenstein Center) Aug. 11: Clarkston, Mich. (Pine Knob) Aug. 12: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Blossom Music Center) Aug. 14: Toronto (Molson Ampitheatre) Aug. 16: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center) Aug. 17: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center) Aug. 19: Manchester, N.H. (Verizon Wireless Arena) Aug. 20: Hershey, Pa. (Hershey Park) Aug. 22: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach) Aug. 23: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center) Aug. 25: Uncasville, Conn. (Mohegan Sun) Aug. 27: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion) Aug. 29: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Saratoga PAC) Aug. 30: Atlantic City, N.J. (Etess Arena at the Taj Mahal) Aug. 31: Syracuse, N.Y. (New York State Fair)


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To: Last Visible Dog
Check out this excerpt from Naked Lunch

Nauseating and depressing, like Lucas Samaras. So terrified of women and sex, victims of their own pathologies.

121 posted on 08/07/2003 10:10:26 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Chad Fairbanks

122 posted on 08/07/2003 10:11:55 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: TLBSHOW
Never did care for them, even though Steve Gadd played drums for them.
I think their music is boring like Pat Metheny!
123 posted on 08/07/2003 10:14:33 PM PDT by rockfish59
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To: rockfish59
Wow. What kind of music do you like?
124 posted on 08/07/2003 10:16:09 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: rockfish59
Fine, then you can just drink your big black cow, and get outta here! ;0)
125 posted on 08/07/2003 10:20:48 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: bigjoesaddle
Dildo's!
I Touch Myself!
Butthole Surfers!
Dancing With Myself!
10cc!

10cc????
Has anyone seen a Peter North video?

126 posted on 08/07/2003 10:25:45 PM PDT by rockfish59
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To: Chad Fairbanks; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I like all kinds of music. I'm listening to classical on the radio right now.

I was raised on rock 'n roll but as time goes by I've learned to like all kinds of music. I can't explain it, but I've just never liked Steely Dan. It's a mystery of the mind (and ear drum)! =^)

Some of my fave rock bands are:

10 Years After
Bad Company
Paul Rodgers (solo)
Mountain
Talking Heads
Rod Stewart & Small Faces

But I also like:

Alison Krauss & Union Station
Patty Loveless
Maire Brennan
Celine Dion
Sinatra
Buddy Rich
Gene Krupa
Billie Holliday
Etc, etc., etc.

OK, I'm leaving now!

127 posted on 08/07/2003 10:42:57 PM PDT by rockfish59
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To: rockfish59
Celine Dion

Okay, that's it. Hand me your badge. RIGHT NOW. : )

128 posted on 08/07/2003 10:47:03 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Hey now, Celine Dion has one of the most wonderful versions of "America" I've ever listened to.

Besides, some people like Kathie Lee...

129 posted on 08/07/2003 10:48:39 PM PDT by CWOJackson (The World According to Garp isn't that bad when compared with The World According to Todd.)
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To: CWOJackson
Yeah, and Pia Zadora. : )
130 posted on 08/07/2003 10:51:45 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: CWOJackson; rockfish59
Seriously, in terms of skill and technique, there's nothing wrong with Celine Dion, and I can see why people enjoy listening to her.

I just have a minimum soul requirement. : )
131 posted on 08/07/2003 10:53:08 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Ouch, you are evil...and only when Pia does torchlight!
132 posted on 08/07/2003 10:59:20 PM PDT by CWOJackson (The World According to Garp isn't that bad when compared with The World According to Todd.)
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To: cmsgop
A Dildo?

Becker and Fagan are too clever by half. Several of the their songs have overtly homosexual themes, e.g., "Rikki Don't Lose that Number," "Gaucho" etc. I try to ignore the more flaming lyrics and ranchy allusions and concentrate on the music--which is absolutely first class. But it is Fagan's solo effort "The Nightfly" that is my favorite SD-flavored CD.

133 posted on 08/07/2003 11:01:41 PM PDT by Kevin Curry (Put Justice Janice Rogers Brown on the Supreme Court--NOW)
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To: CWOJackson
Aaaaaah...you know I dig you, my friend. You could listen to "Harvey Fierstein Sings Burt Bacharach" and I wouldn't think ill of you. : )
134 posted on 08/07/2003 11:07:51 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: Kevin Curry
I wonder what one of their other names, "Leather Canary", meant. : )
135 posted on 08/07/2003 11:09:24 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Who told you about Harvey?!

Who's got the loud mouth around here?

136 posted on 08/07/2003 11:11:03 PM PDT by CWOJackson (The World According to Garp isn't that bad when compared with The World According to Todd.)
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To: CWOJackson
ROTFL
137 posted on 08/07/2003 11:11:28 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Regarding AJA, I agree. I have all their albums, now CDs, up to Gaucho. The digital recording of The Nightfly, by Fagan, is an all time favorite of mine.

If I had to pick only one song by them, it'd be Time Out Of Mind from Gaucho. Mark Knopfler playing his usual understated style on that, if memory serves me correctly (too lazy to look right now). The references to 'Chasin' the dragon' .....

138 posted on 08/07/2003 11:14:00 PM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Eagle9
Picking one favorite Dan tune...that would be a difficult thing to do. I love "The Boston Rag" - that guitar line that repeats throughout is magical, imo. When I saw them at the Gorge in 2000, the sun was setting behind them when they played that...it was just incredible.

(This year, encores were "My Old School" and "FM" - it was a perfect night, in every way.)
139 posted on 08/07/2003 11:17:03 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Her song from 'Titanic' was (and might still be) the most played song at weddings!

I have a prob with her and Babs though! =^)

140 posted on 08/08/2003 12:16:06 AM PDT by rockfish59
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