Anodyne
Saturday, July 29, 2006
 

The Steely Dan Show
28 July 2006
White River Ampitheatre, Auburn, WA

Turtle Talk (Dee Baron)
Bodhisattva
Time Out of Mind
Aja
I Got The News
Hey Nineteen
Josie
Green Earrings
Deacon Blues
Black Friday
Dirty Work
Band Intro: Cold Sweat (James Brown) / Show Biz Kids
Do It Again
Peg
Don't Take Me Alive
Kid Charlemagne

Encore

My Old School
Last Tango in Paris (Gato Barbieri)

Setlist now definitively amended. I am downloading the concert as I type, a nice momento soon to be burned to CD and relentlessly inflicted on my staff for months to come.

There is a sweet version of Dee Baron's instrumental Turtle Talk on Stan Kenton's Adventures in Jazz. Donald dressed like Keanu in The Matrix -- huge full-length black leather trenchcoat and wraparound shades. Walter dressed like my high school shop teacher -- sports shirt and slacks. Killer band, especially guitarist Jon Herrington and drummer Keith Carlock. Donald's voice was not the wreck it was when I saw the much larger Steely Dan Orchestra in Toronto in 2003; he sounded pretty much like his studio self and restlessly paced the stage like a cornered rat, tossing off melodica and Keytar [actually a MIDI sequencer with a shoulder strap, says an Internet correspondent] solos. A great show; lots of improvisation and a nice mix of popular favorites and obscurities. The Barbieri instrumental was a "closing number" played by the band long after Walt and Don quit the stage.

(Photo courtesy Seattle's own Steely Diane, several rows ahead of me)
- posted by cjb @ 3:55 AM


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