Steely Dan live at the Gorge Amphtiheatre in Washington State, summer of 2000.
Songs? All of them. First time I had ever experienced digital "Q-Sound" as FOH and it remains unforgettable. In consideration of the fact that there were three background vocalists, a four piece horn section, a supplimental keyboard player, supplimental guitarist (the incomprable Jon Herrington), two percussionists, a second bassist, and also Becker and Fagan? And they were all putting things into the mix? And it sounded pretty much like listening to the record (except for Herrington's interpretations on some of the classic "hired gun" guitar solos)?
The overall experience in a perfectly "dead" outdoor environment, looking across the Columbia River valley at the Hoodoos while the sun sunk in the West?
All while my favorite band of all time was doing what they do best?
Imagine it...
They didn't play "Josie" and that was the only thing I had a problem with...
Well, that and the Cops in Spokane...but that's another matter entirely!
LMFAO.
RIP Mr. Becker; you did good things in your time on the extant world.
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