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Article: Pop live: They're back, Jack
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1996
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"I hope they do 'All Around My Hat'," a voice said on the way
in. A joke, almost certainly. (The American jazz-rock group Steely
Dan are not to be confused with the British folk group Steeleye
Span. Not under any circumstances.) Then again, it has been a long
time.
One could easily have formed the impression, over the last
quarter of a century or so, that touring was not high among Steely
Dan's priorities. Walter Becker's sleeve notes for the recent live
album recall, with limited enthusiasm, such on-the-road experiences
as "being trapped in dressing rooms with alcoholic Brits and scary
blues bands from Texas" and "spitting take-out meat and milkshake
on the walls of overlit elevators". ...