The smiles of the beyond.

He's a beast!!

Amen! University of North Texas Alum.

He’s one of the greats.

Exactly!!

That drum solo at the end. Fantastic! 🥁

The Steely Dan girls are the best around

What were the opening and closing tunes?

I have a fantasy that the band performs the theme from Jonny Quest by Hoyt Curtin for the final intro tune. They would need to add the sound effects for the gun shots and explosions. The trombone solo is notoriously difficult. This band can pull it off! Just as the song comes to it's climax Fagan strolls out on stage.🙂

@@keith9882Did you ever find them?

No shee

Jim Beard died? Piano player and other keys right?? Was he ill?

Well said young man.

Now these concerts are only for the elite. It's really a shame. I used to go to a lot shows even when I was just a young teenager, just saving my piddly weekly allowance ...no problem. Now ? Forget it.

How are the neighbors to listen in this economy

Yes, very talented saxophonist.

The opening of the show brings out a jazzy vibe to it! 🎷🎹. Way to make an entrance! 🙌

Funny isn't it how some people cannot shut up, they pay top dollar to hear liv e music and talk incessantly, it is a disease I think.

My wife and I attended a SD show at PNC Pavilion at Charlotte a few years ago. We sprang for some pretty pricey tickets. This guy sitting ahead of us starting acting out like he was tripping or something, turning around and mugging at us and others sitting around, running his mouth, standing and sitting, waving his arms, picking at his friends, etc. etc. I felt bad for his friends, they were clearly embarrassed. I was so mad. If he had laid his hands on me or my wife I don't know how I would have reacted. After putting up with this for too long I finally talked to a security person. After a little persuasion they walked him out, still behaving like a spoiled child. Pretty well ruined the show for us. Moral of the story is don't wait to notify security.

@@Deliquescentinsight It is a mental issue, "listen to me," not the music!

THEY WILL!!!

that's a nice sentiment. yes, 'show biz kids' forever.

No That Was The Peach 🍑 Nerds!!!!

Yacht Rock.

Yep

These days the guitar chair is shared between Herrington and Adam Rogers, this works well I think, some different solo choices and so forth.

We had loge seats, which have a countertop with a plexiglass edge that is about a foot tall, so I leaned the phone against the plexiglass, and covered it a bit on the camera side with a napkin to block the lights reflecting in the plexiglass. The downside is that the surface reflected/magnified any voices of people talking around me... but it's a public concert so what can you do :)

@@btrustman well I appreciate your efforts because I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting

Remarkably good for a phone, the sound is not bad.

👏🏿touche'. Great question bruh 🤔🧔🏿‍♂️

Thank You for such a great recording.. surprised Donald didn’t have the staff warn everyone about not recording the show.. He did that in Atlantic City at the Borgata in 2022

Glad Steely Dan opened the show for the Eagles!

I wonder if he's leaning away from the mic

Yes, very said about Jim Beard. Here is a Wikipedia to current member when you scroll down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steely_Dan_members It looks quite accurate. I saw them yesterday night. No mention was made of Beard but I'd like to think they were thinking of him, in spirit. Fantastic show! Everyone , including Fagen on their A game.

Very sad. He was a gifted musician, arranger, composer, and a very fine human being. The band I think in this concert is: Roger Rosenberg, Bob Sheppard, Michael Leonhart, Jim Pugh, Keith Carlock, Larry Goldings, Carolyn Leonhart, La Tanya Hall (?), Jamie Leonhart, Freddie Washington, Adam Rogers, Jon Herington.

I wonder what overlap there is these days, as well as who is going to big arena tour shows these days generally. I don't mean to poo poo anyone, but I am seeing these conversations about lots of artists on big tours

I was there too, bummer no Steely Dan, but Tom was amazing, surprisingly knew every song.

I believe it's Adam Rogers, really good jazz guitarist....

What a great player .....and that tone is so smooth. I never heard of him until now.

​@@jimdep6542Yeah, he's tremendous. I actually have several of his albums or at least parts of them. I noticed maybe 6 months or so ago that Adam was in the band. That band is loaded with killer players.

It's Larry Goldings

Donald said it was a Michael Gaugh, Gauff or something, couldn't quite make it out...@@seekay41

hmm I was also certain Fagen called him Michael something, but it does appear that Larry Goldings indeed is correct.

@@ecopolst Yes that'll be right, it looks like Larry.

They tour pretty regularly, Keep a watch out. They'll be back in the area before long. Plus as big a city at ATL is I can't imagine they wouldn't reschedule. They're bound to have a huge fan base there.

​@@tomcook8711yes, i expect to see them someday soon in a smaller venue.

Was Drew Zing supposed to play this leg of the tour?

If you can believe it, they told everyone they HAD to stay seated at the request of the bands - THAT was super lame for sure… it’s a concert … unreal.

@@btrustmanWow ! I've never seen that happen at a concert before...but I haven't been to a show in decades. I used to go a lot when it was still affordable, and that was before I became a full time player back in the late 70's.

Well look at it this way, people behind have also paid a lot of bucks for those seats and if the stage is not too high the folks standing will block the view of the performers. Keep your seat during the song, after the song is over, stand, yell and cheer and raise a little hell then sit down. That shouldn't bother the folks behind, if the performance is good enough they may stand as well. Take a load off and enjoy. 😊

@@tomcook8711 That's the way it used to be and that was the etiquette most people respected. I liked shows that were general admission too, where if you wanted to move around, it was ok because you weren't tied down to a seat. I remember shows too such as Santana in the early 70's, that when Carlos was soloing, people would stand up and they'd sit back down when he wasn't.

Was this their double-bill with the Eagles? I imagine a lot of people there to see the straightforward rock of the Eagles did not know what to make of the jazz-rock stylings of Steely Dan.

Freddie Washington Jr

Has he played with them in the last 25 years?

In 1973

Anyone that says that obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. SD has been touring regularly since at least the early 90's perhaps longer. I saw them in 92 at Charlotte.

I get it, but sure it can, Adam rogers is an upgrade musically, imo.

Plenty of SD studio tracks where he has no playing credits.

Walter breathes through every tune…present or not……..carry on Donald 🌴😎✌️

Except perhaps if they perform a Fagan solo song Walter's finger prints are all over every song. Lyrics, arrangements, mixing, all of it. Correct on the uncredited studio performances. Walter is somewhat underrated as a guitarist.

kinda bottom heavy

I'd say he's doing fairly well to have performed the better part of 53 yrs out of his 76 yrs of living. Im 52 and I'm not as sharp as I once was...

It is a concert and people around you talk; unfortunately nothing you can do.

For his age, his still sounds good. He's singing on key and has that unique quality to his voice, even if he can't belt it out like he used to.

Don has never been know as a great vocalist. Of course he sounds great on all studio recordings. Saw them a few years back and he seemed to be fighting a cold, lots of clearing his throat and coughing, got to give him cred for pushing through.

@@btrustman True...but then we MUST say that people that goes to a concert and talks are IDIOTS

Saw SD a couple of times at PNC Pavilion at Charlotte over the last 8 or 9 years (outdoor). We had pretty decent seats, left side, maybe row 20 or so. Acoustics were awful, could not really hear Jon Herrington. PNC seems to have a rep for poor acoustics. I will say though we saw the Eagles in the CLT colosseum (indoor) and the sound was amazing. Not very loud at all, but very clear no distortion unless it was part of the song.