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« Brain food from the heartland
Steely Dan-a VERY Brief Review/Suggestions
By Louie b. Free (Contact)
Published November 17, 2009
Steely Dan DID,in fact, do the Royal Scam tonight(17Nov) in Akron.
The problem was-it was WE, the audience, that got scammed(disappointed would be WAY understated).
If their tour isn't over and you're planning on going-here's my advice:
To re-create the concert's atmosphere, do the following:
#1) Find a special effects cd w/ a high-pitch feedback squeal and play it as loud as you can and as long as you can .
#2) Get two coloured spot lights and shine them into your eyes.
#3) Get a couple of bad ________(edited by Bun-E) back up singers that will sing for a couple of beers.
#4) Play your old vinyl Royal Scam album-even if you've breched(puked) on it-it will sound better than Steely Dan did live.
(oh, and if you were in attendance at the concert and want the REAL effect of paying $90.00 for your ticket-go to an adult "novelty" store , buy the product that Steely Dan named themselves after(from WilliamBurroughs-Naked Lunch) and insert it(backside).
Comments
Louie, don't lose that "number." :-)
Thanks for the review. It's "Dirty Work" but someone had to do it. You are saying you wouldn't "Do It Again." I guess they're over the hill and "Reelin In the Years" and "Hey Nineteen" they are not. They are "Two Against Nature" and lost. In the end "Everything Must Go." I guess after the show you had the "Deacon Blues." ~ In Solidarity the Elecpencil
very cool
thanks
Weren't they notoriously a bad live band? Isn't that why they rarely toured? Would you have thought that age made them better?
Saddad,
1) why sad?
2) tell me about "one of musics least creative periods."
Apollo,
this was only the second time i saw them live - the first time was in the early 70's at a club/bar in Atlanta - maybe i just THOUGHT they were good due to other 'circumstances'
I agree LBF, that was a very creative period of music.
I'm a Steely Dan fan but would never ever fork over real money to see them live as they were notoriously a bad live group. I'm pretty certain even the group admitted such.
Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan
Pretty certain they became a studio only band in 1975 because of their bad live abilities. Mainly because they used studio musicians almost exclusively.
I've seen Steely Dan in the 80's, the 90's and now, 2009. The early shows were good. In some cases, fantastic. I never found them to be a bad concert... until now. The Akron shows were embarassing. Don Fagen is losing his voice. The band had no edge. The horn section sounded like it was called out from the Local Musicians union. I struggled to stay through the third song. I left in disappointment. I really loved SD back in the day, but the affair is over after the Akron shows.