Donald Fagen lead Steely Dan in a tour-opening performance on Tuesday evening at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, OH, kicking off the band’s Midwest stint with plenty of Steely favorites and some choice rarities.
Along with classic hits like “Kid Charlemagne,” “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “Dirty Work” and “Peg,” Fagen and company fit in (per JamBase) just the fifth run of the Royal Scam cut “Sign in Stranger” since 2011, with the other four coming during the group’s 2018 run at New York’s Beacon Theatre where they presented a number of full-album performances. Other rarer tunes from last night’s opener included “Bad Sneakers” and “Third Man World,” the first rendition of the latter song at a one-off, non-orchestral performance since 2014.
Check out the full setlist below. Next up for Steely Dan’s “Sweet” tour is a stop in Rochester Hills, MI, tomorrow night. See their full schedule here.
Steely Dan
Covelli Centre – Youngstown, OH
Teenie’s Blues, Sign in Stranger, Black Friday, Hey Nineteen, Aja, Time Out of Mind, Bad Sneakers, Kid Charlemagne, Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, The Goodbye Look, Dirty Work, Peg, Third World Man, Keep That Same Old Feeling, I Got the News, Bodhisattva, My Old School
Enc: Reelin’ in the Years, A Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry
Source: setlist.fm
6 Comments comments associated with this post
JAGGERRICH
August 31, 2019 at 4:07 amMaybe YOU are the boy MMAAARRRTTYYYYY (DO I EVEN NEED TO SPEEL OUT WHAT YOUR NAME RHYMES WITH!!!))))))) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU ARE ALL SOOOOOOO PATHETIC AND UNINFORMED!! ITS A WAIST OF MY TIME TO EVEN TRY TO ENLIGHTEN YOU WITH MY PEARLS OF WISDOM SO I WON’T EVEN BOTHER. JUST GO BACK TO LISTENING TO BRITNEY SPEARS!!! BRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE SOOO LAME!!!! LATE
Marty
August 31, 2019 at 2:23 amBoys, boys, boys !
Really……….m
Doug
August 29, 2019 at 12:21 pmYou are so wrong with almost everything you wrote. I suspect you were drunk and/or high when you wrote this at 11pm. I didn’t state SD are a jamband, In fact, I suggested they act like one because they aren’t and don’t act like one. Steely Dan was a studio band after the first two albums. All they did was bring in heavy-hitter studio musicians who just read the charts, riffed on them, and put their takes on tape. Your insinuation otherwise is laughable. Also, to state that SD entertained “improvisational excellence” is the biggest joke of all. They didn’t play a show from mid-74 to 93 and had (substantially) all of their success from their records (charting on Billboard jacknut: #8, #13, #15, #3, #9, #6 and #9) after mid-74. If you’d like to have a musical discussion I’ll beat your arse at that too.
JAGGERRICH
August 30, 2019 at 8:01 pmhahahaha!! YOU are Wrong!!! obviously you think your talking to a fool because you get so many things so terribly incorrect!!!! It’s almost too much to even explain and I’m not sure you even have the capacity but in case others here want to be enlightened I shall hold forth in kind. First you are an idiot to say “drunk and/or high”. A person is either drunk or he is high or both, you moron. Second, you say that Steeley Dan was a studio band on its first two albums. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS IS THE HEIGHT OF IGNORANCE!!!! E-V-E-R-Y ALBUM IS A STUDIO ALBUM BECAUSE IT IS RECORDED IN THE STUDIO! THAT’S WHERE RECORDS WERE MADE IN THE 70’S! LMAO!! FINALLY YOU SAY THEY DIDN’T PLAY “A SHOW” FROM 74-93. tHIS IS THE STUUUUUPPIIIDDDESSSTTTT THING YOU’VE ARGUED IN YOUR TREATISE SINCE EVERY CONCERT IS A SHOW!!! BRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! WHAT A TOOL BOX!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! GO BACK TO SCHOOL SON!
Doug
August 28, 2019 at 1:42 pmThe Dan sure would benefit from using a jamband-like approach to mixing up their setlists. At this point they all read the charts anyway, so they could/should get 3 shows worth of tunes worked up. Can’t wait to see them again. Also, they should release some SBDs to generate some interest among this fanbase.
JAGGERRICH
August 28, 2019 at 11:01 pmHey Dougie, you miss the point entirely. Where to start. Uh, first off, Steely Dan was never a ‘jamband’, as you so laughably say. They really were more close to jazz musicians, so the comparison does not work in the slightest. Point two is that reading the “charts” as you say is not something amenable to musicians from the era whence came thou Steely Dan. In this way they actually are closer to the aesthetic mindset of the greatest ‘jamband’ ever, if you will. THEE GRATEFUL DEAD who were similarly less concerned with success on the billboard charts than with improvisational excellence in the tradition of the jazz greats like Miles Davis. And actually, this is another way that they are connected to the Dan which as I said at the outset is closely aligned to jazz. But I’m guessing this is all over your head and way past your level of musical knowledge, so excuse my professorship but sometimes I get going and the inspiration flows. Late