COURTESY OF STEELY DAN
Steely Dan will complete its "Everything Must Go" tour with two Hawaii concerts.
Steely Dan concluding tour
with 2 isle shows in October
Steely Dan, the seminal '70s band known for its ironic humor, cryptic lyrics, jazz, traditional pop, blues and R&B, will finish its "Everything Must Go" tour with two Hawaii concerts in October at Honolulu's Blaisdell Arena and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
The concerts will be Oct. 10 on Maui and Oct. 11 in Honolulu.
There has been no announcement when tickets go on sale. Some 5,000 seats will be available for the Maui show and about 6,000 for Honolulu. Mainland sources said ticket prices will range from about $45-$75.
Steely Dan leaders and founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are bringing their eight-member touring band and three backup singers who are performing with them on their current tour that began July 23 in Costa Mesa, Calif.
The song list from these concerts includes Becker singing "Slang of Ages" -- his first Steely Dan lead vocal in the group's 31-year recording career -- from the duo's new album. Other songs include another new track, "The Last Mall," "Things I Miss the Most," "Hey Nineteen," "Janie Runaway," "Do It Again," "Reeling in the Years," "Peg," "Kid Charlemagne," and "Aja."
COURTESY OF STEELY DAN
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan are bringing their eight-member touring band and three backup singers.
The performances mark only the second time Steely Dan has performed in Hawaii after their March 1974 show in Honolulu with opening act Jessie Collin Young.
The concert is another coup for the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, an especially popular venue for pop artists. The last pop-rock concert of this magnitude at the MAAC was Sting's sold-out performance in April 2000.
Steely Dan, known for its sophisticated, distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, released the album "Everything Must Go" in June.
The band's 2000 album "Two Against Nature" -- their first in 20 years -- earned them a Grammy award.
Becker and Fagen early in the band's evolution turned Steely Dan into a studio project, hiring professional musicians to record their compositions. Even after the group disbanded in the early '80s, their records retained a cult following.
Steely Dan's other album's include: "Can't Buy A Thrill" (1972), "Countdown to Ecstasy" (1973), "Pretzel Logic} (1974), "Katy Lied" (1975), "The Royal Scam" (1976), and "Aja" (1977).
