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Article: 'GIVE IT TO LARRY!'
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- The Village Voice
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- August 5, 2009
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'GIVE IT TO LARRY!'
Fathers and sons boogie to suicide threats and midlife crises at Steely Dan's Beacon run
One evidently satisfied customer of Friday's just-finished Steely Dan show addresses his threefoot radius on the 72nd Street subway platform: "Just straight music. No fancy crap." He has just left a half-gilded room- the Beacon Theatre- where the lighting changed four times a minute and every other song concluded with 10 seconds of noodltng. A room where the guitarists favored chords that appeared to require six fingers.
Steely Dan's music- stubbornly perfect jazz-rock played by the ablest hands money can buy- is not particularly simple. Nor is it particularly friendly. Donald ...