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    Steely Dan

    Have any of you seen them on this tour?? I just saw them at the Beacon and they were great! Had Pheobe Snow do a walk on. If you like them and get the chance, go see them. You won't be dissapointed.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Robh3606 View Post
    Have any of you seen them on this tour?? I just saw them at the Beacon and they were great! Had Pheobe Snow do a walk on. If you like them and get the chance, go see them. You won't be dissapointed.


    http://www.steelydan.com/

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    Always liked "The Dan". Went they recording for many years before they got out of the studio ? Are they as good "live" ?? Loved the high "production values" and unique unclassifiable sound.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Robh3606 View Post
    Have any of you seen them on this tour??
    Well it appears I just missed them!

    Jun 04 - Freedom Hill - Detroit MI

    Jun 05 - Toledo Zoo Amph. - Toledo OH

    I must listen to the wrong radio stations during my commutes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robh3606 View Post
    Have any of you seen them on this tour?? I just saw them at the Beacon and they were great! Had Phoebe Snow do a walk on. If you like them and get the chance, go see them. You won't be disappointed.

    http://www.steelydan.com/

    Rob

    Well - THATS an early tour - seems most of the shows have already happened! They passed me by LAST week!

    • Jun 07 - Wolf Trap - Vienna VA - OVER!

    Fortunately I do have tickets for Lyle Lovett and k.d. Lang next week - Lyle is always a lot of fun ... k.d. has a wonderful voice and a good band but needs to find new material to sing these days ...
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    That Wolf Trap show was sold out months ago. I saw them last year, touring with Michael McDonald, at Nissan Pavilion and they were great. Tried to find them again this year because my 18-year-old couldn't make last year's show due to a commitment to summer opera (West Side Story and Merry Widow). It was a great concert last year. Fine sound system (I was a bit worried after McDonald's opening group). Hopefully they'll tour again next summer.

    Next year my daughter's going to the school where Fagen and Becker met (Chevy Chase, too) back in 1967 (only a few miles from where Levon Helm and his daughter live and perform). My daughter's been a Dan fan all her life. She had no choice! No, the Dan influence isn't why she picked the school, but at least we now understand the reference to Annandale in the lyrics to "Old School". Her major is theater and this was actually more a draw than Becker, Fagen, and Chase:
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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    Well - THATS an early tour - seems most of the shows have already happened! They passed me by LAST week!

    • Jun 07 - Wolf Trap - Vienna VA - OVER!

    Fortunately I do have tickets for Lyle Lovett and k.d. Lang next week - Lyle is always a lot of fun ... k.d. has a wonderful voice and a good band but needs to find new material to sing these days ...
    We'll be at the Lyle/kd show, too- on the lawn, I think. Lyle's with the Large Band this time, I saw him at Lincoln Center and another venue I can't remember with the Bluegrass band.

    Just got VIP passes to Nickel Creek/Fiona Apple there, too.

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    I missed them

    I missed them as well, but there was a good reason. The Bear's Den at the Niagara Casino is small - 443 seats! If you don't get a ticket the first day or so, then you are out of luck. Premium seating is auctioned off to the highest bidder, in the case of the Dan, they went for $750.00/seat!!!!!
    Too high priced for my blood. I'll have to be content listening to them on my JBL's at home.

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    Oops - THANKS Rob for the announcement..

    the link shows 16 concert dates for europe in july.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fred Sanford View Post
    We'll be at the Lyle/kd show, too- on the lawn, I think. Lyle's with the Large Band this time, I saw him at Lincoln Center and another venue I can't remember with the Bluegrass band.

    Just got VIP passes to Nickel Creek/Fiona Apple there, too.

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    So - how was that Lyle/k.d. show Sunday night in Charlottesville?
    We'll be seeing them Weds night at Wolf Trap in Vienna ...

    I'm looking forward to Lyle and the Large Band - they're always a lot of fun.
    k.d.'s newest album is just a greatest hits/remastered kind of thing, so we have no idea what to expect from her ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    So - how was that Lyle/k.d. show Sunday night in Charlottesville?
    I didn't go. And I think Fred Sanford was going to the same show you're hitting in NOVA. Enjoy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    Nope - Fred called me Saturday to see where I'd be sitting so we could meet up and halfway through we realized we were talking different days & venues ...
    He was going to the Sunday show down your way!
    It was that lawn-seating comment that threw me, having watched the Charlottesville Pavilion morph from a pleasant public space with a fabric-covered band shell designed by one of my architecture-school classmates into a for-profit venue controlled by the manager of the Dave Matthews' Band with a huge permanent tent imported from Yirrup that required tens-of-thousands-of-dollars spent after-the-fact just to make it not sound like the bottom of a well! Do I sound like a disaffected local resident? For a damn good reason!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    So - how was that Lyle/k.d. show Sunday night in Charlottesville?
    We'll be seeing them Weds night at Wolf Trap in Vienna ...

    I'm looking forward to Lyle and the Large Band - they're always a lot of fun.
    k.d.'s newest album is just a greatest hits/remastered kind of thing, so we have no idea what to expect from her ...
    Sorry, haven't checked the forum for a while- the show was great, the sound from the lawn was passable. k.d. had a small band, did an interesting mix from throughout her career (3 from Ingenue, a Patsy Cline, Cohen's Hallelujah, a couple "Reclines" style tunes, some new stuff). What a strong voice, very impressive. Loved by the local crowd, she seemed really comfortable.

    Lyle had the big band, but only used it maybe 60% of the set. Flawless performance, as expected from the top-notch musicians. Seeing Russ Kunkel was a highlight, he's been a favorite drummer for most of my life. Fun to see Sweet Pea and Sir Harry on backing vocals as well. Beginning of the set was a little slow, but overall both artists had such diverse back catalogs you had to just go where they took you & enjoy.

    Have a great time, hope you like it.

    je

    k.d.'s best line: "I've toured with Lyle on & off for 22 years now. His band just gets bigger & bigger, his hair keeps getting taller. My band gets smaller, my hair gets shorter. I guess, for one of us, size doesn't matter..."

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    i have the large band album and it plays frequently round these parts...........faves include which way does that old pony run,if you were to wake up..........there a tasty violin solo in there that ..........well...................i have never been a huge fan of kd but i do recognize an awesome talent when i see it............but when i wanna hear patsy i just go right there..............she' a huge fave

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    The sound was brilliant, I might add - what you'd expect for a bit more sophisticated crowd. Donald Fagan ("our fearless leedaah...") welcomed the audience with "hello - kids...." he and the band were in bestform, they presented themselves well-humored, gave to understand they appreciated the location and enjoyed the event. I have never seen such a huge gathering of end-thirties to mid-forties with a big, happy grin in their face - me included.

    Two more gigs in scandinavia, then they go south europe, direction Italy. Anyone else to attend?
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