STEELY DAN - Steely Dan Live Dallas, TX 1994.09.02 2CD MP3@320

STEELY DAN - Steely Dan Live Dallas, TX 1994.09.02 2CD

What we have here is a superb-sounding soundboard recording from the 1994 'Dan Tour. This is easily the best quality recording available from this tour, and likely one of the best-sounding 'Dan boots from any tour. Excellent stereo soundboard.



Steely Dan Live at Starplex Amphitheater Dallas, TX, September 2, 1994

Disc One = 71:27

CD01 01 - Overture - Royal Scam-Parkers Band-The Fez

CD01 02 - Aja

CD01 03 - Reelin in the Years

CD01 04 - Josie (w/drum solo)

CD01 05 - Hey Nineteen

CD01 06 - Down in the Bottom

CD01 07 - Sign in Stranger

CD01 08 - Peg

CD01 09 - Band Introductions

CD01 10 - Babylon Sisters

CD01 11 - Black Friday



Disc Two = 70:14

CD02 01 - True Companion

CD02 02 - Green Earrings

CD02 03 - Bodhisattva

CD02 04 - Deacon Blues

CD02 05 - Tomorrows Girls

CD02 06 - Hard Up Case

CD02 07 - Chain Lightning

CD02 08 - Third World Man

CD02 09 - Kid Charlemagne

CD02 10 - My Old School

CD02 11 - FM



THE BAND:

Donald Fagen: Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Melodica

Walter Becker: Guitar, Vocals

along with...

"The Citizen Steely Dan Orchestra 1994"

Dennis Chambers: Drums

Bill Ware III: Vibes, Congas, Percussion

Tom Barney: 5-string Bass

Georg Wadenius: Guitars

Warren Bernhardt: Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes

Diane Garisto: Vocals

Brenda White-King: Vocals

Catherine Russell: Vocals

Chris Potter: Tenor Sax

Cornelius Bumpus: Tenor Sax

Bob Shepard: Tenor, Alto and Soprano Sax



Review...

Although I personally much prefer the early 'Rock Band' Dan of the 1974 tour to the later 'Smooth Jazz' Dan of these later tours, still, any year Steely Dan is great stuff, and for these initial reunion tours of 1993-1994 it was soooo good to finally get to hear Steely Dan live again after so many years (like almost 20?) of no Live Dan shows. So, here we have a fantastic recording and a great show, featuring a similar, but still somewhat different, setlist from that featured on the 1993 tour. This time, we still have 2 tracks from Becker's solo album '11 Tracks of Whack', but they are 2 different songs this time ('Down in the Bottom' and 'Hard Up Case' replaces 'Book of Liars' and 'Fall of '92'). This show, surprisingly, does not contain any songs from Don's solo albums (previously, they had featured 'IGY' and 'Green Flower Street' from The Nightfly, and 'Teahouse on the the Tracks' from Kamakiriad), but that allows them to feature more Steely Dan tracks, including 'True Companion', 'Aja', 'Kid Charlemagne', 'Sign In Stranger', and 'FM', that were not played at the previous year's St.Louis show, so we get to hear several different songs this time around, as well as the great rest of the show and, again, in wonderful quality. Enjoy!