Opening Night Blues?
I wasn't much impressed by the FOH SR... First gig in the US, maybe new production crew... Took until the third song before things smoothed out, not such great tone, too much volume, uneven mix, missed a bunch of solo bits... Probably not too familiar with the Dan's oeuvre...Thought I could have done better with a PM-2000 and stacks on stage, blown ears and all... Kind of a shame that SMAART analysis, digital boards, and fancy line arrays can't sound any better than that... Admittedly, it would suck to have to mix FOH from the back, under the balcony...As for the lack of fire... the Dan told everybody already... it's the Rent Party Tour, dude... Their investment folks gave them the bad news while they were on the other side of the pond, Et Voila! On The Road Again! Walter looked like he was having fun, at least, even if he always dodged his lighting mark... and Carlock gets the gold star for both chops and stamina... Horn section was excellent (and should be with their collective pedigree), but badly mixed... The wiggle light programmer had a couple of cute cues ("Shaking It" over the backup singers during Babylon Sisters), but didn't seem to have Mr. Fagen's set list... when in doubt, go for the magenta back light... I loved listening to Walter's prolix and hyperbolic intro of his partner in crime...The opening trio wasn't bad, but I couldn't understand the name of the band, as the box pushers were apparently running the board at the time... The Hammond operator wasn't Lonnie Smith, or Lyle Mays, but he had some nice licks, and they did some imaginative (although meandering) covers and at least one original.But even less than stellar Steely Dan is better than most of what passes for music these days, the curmudgeon muttered...As for Rikki, I'd bet good money that her song won't make the Interweb Request night... Just as well, since Skunk can't be dragged away from his DOD consulting gig...Style points to the drunk aging frat boys down front reliving their salad days "dancing" at Crazy Zack's...May the batteries never wear out in the rig from Yokohama!
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It looks tough, but our steely eyed regulars win the day. It was interesting to me to see the opposite. To tell the story of what happens when you have a good, competent man running the show, but unfortunately he's good and competent at being a Raptor